Questions & Answers about Vi spiste fisk igen i går.
How do I know to use spiste instead of har spist?
Spiste is the simple past tense (we ate), which you use because the sentence mentions a specific finished time in the past: i går (yesterday). If you didn't mention exactly when it happened, you might use the present perfect instead: Vi har spist fisk (We have eaten fish).
Is fisk singular or plural in this sentence?
It is used generally as an uncountable food here, just like in English (we ate fish). However, even if you were counting individual animals, the plural of en fisk is also just fisk in Danish.
Why is yesterday translated as two words (i går)?
In Danish, many common time expressions are built with the preposition i (in) plus another word. I går means yesterday, i dag means today, and i morgen means tomorrow. You just have to memorize them as set phrases.
Could I change the word order and put i går at the beginning of the sentence?
Yes! You can say I går spiste vi fisk igen. Notice that if you move the time expression to the front, the verb (spiste) and the subject (vi) have to swap places. This is called the V2 rule, meaning the verb must always be the second main block of information in a standard sentence.
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