Breakdown of De glemmer alt når de tilgiver hinanden.
de
they
glemme
to forget
når
when
alt
everything / all (neuter, before a noun)
hinanden
each other
tilgive
to forgive
Questions & Answers about De glemmer alt når de tilgiver hinanden.
The current lesson is about using hinanden with prepositions. Why is there no preposition before hinanden in this sentence?
While you will often see hinanden used after a preposition (like med hinanden for with each other), it can also act as the direct object of a verb. Here, tilgiver (forgive) directly takes hinanden as its object, meaning they forgive each other without needing an extra connecting word.
Why do we use alt here instead of alle for everything?
In Danish, alt is used for abstract concepts or uncountable things, translating to everything or all of it. Alle is used for countable nouns or people, meaning everyone or all of them. Since they are forgetting the abstract concept of everything that happened, alt is the correct choice.
Could we use da instead of når to mean when in this sentence?
No, because this sentence is in the present tense. You must use når for things happening in the present or future, as well as for repeated actions. Da is strictly used for a single, specific event that already happened in the past.
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