Questions & Answers about Min gamle hund døde i går.
Why does the adjective gammel change to gamle here?
When an adjective comes after a possessive pronoun like min, it must take its definite form. For most adjectives, this means adding an -e. This is why we use gamle instead of the basic dictionary form gammel.
How does the spelling actually change from gammel to gamle?
When you add the -e ending to Danish adjectives ending in -el, the e before the l drops out. Additionally, Danish spelling rules usually do not allow a double consonant before another consonant, so the double m in gammel becomes a single m. That gives us the form gamle.
Why do we use min and not mit here?
Possessive pronouns must agree with the gender of the noun they describe. Because hund is a common-gender word, as in en hund, we use the common-gender form min. If the noun were a neuter word like et hus, we would use mit instead.
What does the i in i går mean?
While i normally translates to the English word in, here it is just part of a fixed time phrase. Danish frequently pairs i with time words to express when something happens, such as i går for yesterday, i dag for today, and i morgen for tomorrow.
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