Word
Vejret er forfærdeligt, så min bror skal køre forsigtigt i tågen.
Meaning
The weather is terrible, so my brother must drive carefully in the fog.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Lesson
Breakdown of Vejret er forfærdeligt, så min bror skal køre forsigtigt i tågen.
være
to be
køre
to drive / to ride (a bike) / to run (of a train or bus service)
i
in
vejret
the weather
Questions & Answers about Vejret er forfærdeligt, så min bror skal køre forsigtigt i tågen.
The lesson is about the dummy subject det, but this sentence uses Vejret. Can I use det instead?
Yes! You can talk about the weather in two ways. You can use the dummy subject det and say det er forfærdeligt vejr (it is terrible weather), or you can make the weather itself the subject like in this sentence: Vejret er forfærdeligt (the weather is terrible). Both are very common.
Why does forfærdeligt have a -t at the end?
It describes Vejret (the weather). Because vejr is a neuter word (a t-word), the adjective describing it must also add a -t to match. If it described an en-word, it would just be forfærdelig.
Why is there also a -t on the end of forsigtigt? Is it describing a neuter word too?
No, in this case the -t is used to make an adverb. The word forsigtigt describes the verb køre (how he drives), not a noun. In Danish, you usually turn an adjective into an adverb by adding a -t, just like adding -ly in English to make carefully.
Why is the verb køre used instead of kører?
The word skal is a modal verb, which means must or has to here. When you use a modal verb, the second verb in the chain must be in the infinitive (the dictionary form). So you drop the present tense -r and use køre.