Learn Danish: Tårnet er hundrede meter højt. - The tower is a hundred meters high.

This sentence demonstrates a classic Danish measure construction. When expressing exact measurements of dimensions like height, length, or age, you simply place the quantity (hundrede meter) directly in front of the descriptive adjective (højt) without needing any prepositions.

Why is 'a hundred' translated as just hundrede instead of et hundrede?

While you can technically say et hundrede, Danish speakers almost always drop the et (a/one) before hundrede and tusind (a thousand) in everyday speech. Just saying hundrede is completely standard when stating quantities.

Why doesn't the word meter get a plural ending here since it's a hundred of them?

Certain measurement words in Danish, especially those of foreign origin, do not change their spelling in the plural. Words like meter, liter, and kilogram look exactly the same whether you have one of them or a hundred. The number hundrede already makes it clear that it is plural.

Why does the adjective høj have a 't' at the end to become højt?

Adjectives in Danish must agree with the gender of the noun they describe. Because tårnet (the tower) is a neuter noun (it comes from the root word et tårn), the base adjective høj must take the neuter -t ending, becoming højt.