Word
På tirsdag diskuterer de præsentationen.
Meaning
Next Tuesday they will discuss the presentation.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of På tirsdag diskuterer de præsentationen.
de
they
på
on / at / in (a language) / of (after nouns like end or start)
tirsdag
Tuesday
diskutere
to discuss
Questions & Answers about På tirsdag diskuterer de præsentationen.
Why do we use På tirsdag here instead of just the weekday?
In Danish, using på before a weekday refers to the upcoming occurrence of that day (the future). This is different from the past tense form, where you would use i tirsdags (last Tuesday) with an -s at the end.
If this happens next Tuesday, why is the verb diskuterer in the present tense?
Danish frequently uses the present tense to express future actions. Because the time phrase På tirsdag already makes it perfectly clear that this happens in the future, you do not need an extra helper verb to say 'will'.
Why does the verb diskuterer come before the subject de?
This is the Danish V2 (verb-second) rule in action. When you start a sentence with a time phrase like På tirsdag, the verb must take the second position in the sentence. This pushes the subject de (they) into the third position.
How do we get the meaning 'the presentation' from præsentationen?
The base word is en præsentation (a presentation). To make it definite (the presentation), Danish moves the article en to the end of the word, creating the suffix -en in præsentationen.