Breakdown of Skrev han rapporten i torsdags?
han
he
skrive
to write
i
in
torsdag
Thursday
rapporten
the report
Questions & Answers about Skrev han rapporten i torsdags?
Why is there an s at the end of torsdags?
When talking about a day of the week in the past, Danish uses i followed by the day and an -s ending. Because the action already happened, torsdag becomes i torsdags (last Thursday). If the action were in the future, you would use på torsdag without the -s.
Why is there no word for "did" at the beginning of the sentence?
Danish does not use helper verbs like "do" or "did" to form questions. Instead, it uses a rule where the verb just moves to the front of the sentence. Han skrev means "he wrote", so Skrev han...? means "Did he write...?".
How does rapporten translate to "the report"?
In Danish, "the" is shown by adding an ending to the noun instead of using a separate word in front of it. The base noun is en rapport (a report). Adding the -en to the end gives us rapporten (the report).
Is skrev an irregular past tense verb?
Yes, skrev is the past tense of the verb at skrive (to write). Instead of taking a standard past tense ending like -ede or -te, it changes its middle vowel. This is very similar to how "write" changes to "wrote" in English.
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