Word
Toget kører den anden maj.
Meaning
The train runs on the second of May.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Toget kører den anden maj.
køre
to drive / to ride (a bike) / to run (of a train or bus service)
den
the (common, before adjective)
toget
the train
maj
May
Questions & Answers about Toget kører den anden maj.
Why use kører for "runs" instead of løber?
In Danish, kører is used when a vehicle is driving, running, or moving. You use løber when a person or animal is physically running with their legs. Since a train is a vehicle, it kører.
The English translation says "on the second", but there is no word for "on" in the Danish sentence. Why?
No preposition is needed here! When giving a specific date in Danish, you simply use den followed by the ordinal number and the month. You do not add a word like på (on) before dates like this.
Does anden mean "second" or "other"?
It can mean both depending on the context! When used with dates or in a numbered sequence, anden is the ordinal number "second". In other situations, it means "other" or "another".
Why does the word for train end in -et (toget)?
Tog (train) is a neuter noun, which means it takes an et article. To say "the" in Danish, you attach the article to the end of the noun. So, et tog (a train) becomes toget (the train).