Learn Danish: Chefen glemmer arbejdet. - The boss forgets the work.

Chef is a false friend between English and Danish. In Danish, en chef means a boss, manager, or leader. If you want to talk about a chef who cooks food, you need the word en kok.

How do we get the word 'the' in this sentence if there is no separate word for it?

Danish usually attaches 'the' to the end of the noun instead of using a separate word. Because chef is an en-word, we add -en to make chefen (the boss). Because arbejde is an et-word, we add a -t to make arbejdet (the work).

I learned arbejde as the verb 'to work'. How is it used as 'the work' here?

Arbejde is both a verb (to work) and a noun (a job or work). In this sentence, you can tell it is acting as a noun because it has the definite ending -t attached to it, making it arbejdet (the work). Also, the sentence already has its main verb, which is glemmer (forgets).

Why does glemmer end in an -r?

In Danish, you form the present tense of almost all verbs by adding an -r to the dictionary form. The basic verb is at glemme (to forget), so adding -r gives us glemmer (forgets). Danish verbs do not change based on who is doing the action, so it is always glemmer in the present tense.