Breakdown of Farmor og farfar har en stor have.
og
and
en
a / an (common)
have
to have
stor
big
haven
the garden
farmoren
the grandmother (father's mother)
farfaren
the grandfather (father's father)
Questions & Answers about Farmor og farfar har en stor have.
Why does the translation specify that these grandparents are on the father's side?
In Danish, you must specify which side of the family grandparents belong to. Farmor literally means father's mother, and farfar means father's father. For the mother's side, you would use mormor and morfar.
Why is the adjective stor used here instead of stort or store?
Adjectives in Danish change their endings to match the noun they describe. Because have (garden) is a singular common gender noun (using en), the adjective takes its basic form stor. If it were a neuter noun like hus (house), it would be et stort hus, and if it were plural, you would use store.
Is the word have at the end of the sentence the same as the verb for to have?
They are spelled identically, but they are different words. In this sentence, have is a noun meaning garden. The verb for to have is also have in its dictionary form, but earlier in this sentence it appears in the present tense as har.
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