Breakdown of Travlheden i byen kan stresse en.
i
in
byen
the city
kunne
to be able to / can
en
one / you (objective)
travlheden
the rush / the busyness
stresse
to stress
Questions & Answers about Travlheden i byen kan stresse en.
Why do we use en at the end instead of man?
The English translation uses "you" to mean "people in general". In Danish, the subject pronoun for this is man (one). However, man can only be the subject of a sentence. Because the pronoun here is receiving the action (it is the object being stressed), we must use its objective form, which is en.
Could I use dig instead of en in this sentence?
Grammatically, yes, but it changes the meaning. Using en makes it a general statement about how the city affects anyone (like saying "it can stress a person out"). If you use dig, you are talking specifically about the person you are speaking to.
How is the word travlheden built?
It starts with the adjective travl (busy). Adding the suffix -hed (which works just like "-ness" in English) turns it into the noun travlhed (busyness or rush). Finally, adding the definite ending -en makes it travlheden (the busyness / the rush).
Why isn't there an at before the verb stresse?
stresse is an infinitive verb that comes right after the modal verb kan (can). Just like in English, modal verbs in Danish take the bare infinitive without at (to). You say "can stress", not "can to stress".
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