Word
Hun går i bad om morgenen.
Meaning
She has a shower in the morning.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Hun går i bad om morgenen.
hun
she
om
in, at (with times of day)
morgenen
the morning
gå i bad
to have a shower
Questions & Answers about Hun går i bad om morgenen.
Why does it say går i bad instead of using a word for 'has' or 'takes'?
In Danish, the standard way to say you are taking a shower or a bath is to say går i bad, which literally translates to 'goes in bath'. You cannot translate the English phrase 'has a shower' word-for-word.
Does the word bad mean a bath or a shower?
It can mean both! Even though it looks and sounds like the English word 'bath', Danes use bad to refer to a shower as well. If you specifically need to point out it is a shower, you can say brusebad, but bad is the most common everyday word for both.
Why do we use om here to mean 'in'?
When you talk about something you do regularly or as a habit, like showering every morning, Danish uses the preposition om. So, om morgenen means 'in the morning' or 'in the mornings' as an ongoing routine.
Why does morgen have an extra '-en' at the end?
In Danish, the word for 'the' is usually added to the end of a noun instead of being a separate word in front. The word morgen means 'morning', and adding the suffix -en makes it morgenen, meaning 'the morning'.