Questions & Answers about Hun drak kaffe og skrev et brev.
Are drak and skrev irregular verbs?
Yes, both drak (drank) and skrev (wrote) are irregular in the past tense, just like they are in English! Their dictionary forms (infinitives) are at drikke (to drink) and at skrive (to write). You simply have to memorize these forms.
Why is there no word for she before skrev?
Because the same person is doing both actions, you can drop the second hun (she) after the word og (and). This works exactly the same way as in English where we drop the subject and say She drank coffee and wrote a letter instead of repeating it.
Why does the sentence use et brev instead of en brev?
Danish has two noun genders: common words use en and neuter words use et. The word for letter, brev, is a neuter noun. Since there is no strict rule for which gender a word is, it is best to memorize et brev together as a single chunk.
Why doesn't kaffe have an article like et brev does?
In this sentence, kaffe is treated as an uncountable noun representing the drink in general. You would only use the article en (en kaffe) if you were talking about one specific cup of coffee.