Breakdown of Jeg sender dig en sms.
jeg
I
en
a / an (common)
dig
you (singular object)
sende
to send
sms'en
the text message
Questions & Answers about Jeg sender dig en sms.
Why is there no word for 'am' in the Danish sentence for 'am sending'?
Danish does not have a present continuous tense like English does. Instead, the simple present tense sender covers both 'send' and 'am sending'.
Could I say 'Jeg sender en sms til dig' instead?
Yes, absolutely! Just like in English, you can put the person receiving the text right after the verb as seen here, or you can put the object first and add til (to) before the person: Jeg sender en sms til dig.
How do you pronounce the word sms in Danish?
You pronounce it by saying the Danish names of the three letters: s-m-s (sounds roughly like 'es-em-es'). Even though it is originally an abbreviation, it is used as a regular noun in Danish.
Why is it en sms rather than et sms?
Acronyms and foreign loanwords usually take the common gender en by default in Danish. It also matches the standard Danish word for a message, which is en besked.
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