Questions & Answers about Gaven er fra os.
Why is "the present" translated as just one word, gaven?
In Danish, "the" is not usually a separate word that goes before the noun. Instead, it attaches to the end of the word. The word for "a present" is en gave. To say "the present", you add the -n to the end, making it gaven.
How do I know whether to add -en or -et to make a word mean "the"?
You have to memorize which gender group the noun belongs to. Gave is a common gender word (an en word), so it takes the -en ending. It is shortened to just -n here because the word already ends in an 'e'. If it were a neuter word (an et word) like et hus (a house), it would take the -et ending to become huset.
Why do we use os instead of vi here?
Just like in English, pronouns change depending on their role in the sentence. Vi means "we", which is the subject doing an action. Os means "us", which is the object form used after prepositions. Since the present is from us, we use the object form os after the preposition fra.
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