Word
Vi bør få sunde vaner.
Meaning
We ought to get healthy habits.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Vi bør få sunde vaner.
vi
we
få
to get, to receive / to have (children)
burde
ought to / should
sund
healthy (wholesome, sound)
Questions & Answers about Vi bør få sunde vaner.
What is the difference between bør and skal in a sentence like this?
The verb bør translates best to 'ought to' or 'should'. It expresses a strong recommendation, good advice, or a moral duty. If you used skal instead, it would sound much more mandatory, like 'we must get' or 'we have to get'.
Why isn't the word at used before få?
Because bør is a modal verb. In Danish, when a modal verb is followed by another verb, the second verb is always in the infinitive form, but you drop the word at (to). It works exactly like 'should' in English: you say 'should get', not 'should to get'.
Why is there an 'e' at the end of sunde?
The adjective sund (healthy) gets an -e added to it because it is describing a plural noun (vaner). In Danish, adjectives almost always take an -e ending when the noun is plural, regardless of the noun's gender.
How do I know vaner is a plural word?
The singular form is en vane (a habit). It belongs to a very common group of Danish nouns that add an -r to the end to form the indefinite plural, becoming vaner (habits).