Breakdown of Gid vi ejede huset med den fantastiske udsigt.
huset
the house
vi
we
den
the (common, before adjective)
med
with; by (bus, train) / of, to (the meaning or point of something)
Questions & Answers about Gid vi ejede huset med den fantastiske udsigt.
Why is ejede in the past tense if this is a wish about the present?
The word gid (I wish / if only) is used for hypothetical or unreal wishes. Just like in English, Danish uses the past tense to talk about something you wish were true right now but isn't. You wish you owned it now, so you use the past tense ejede.
Could I say Jeg ønsker vi ejede... instead of using Gid?
No, jeg ønsker is generally used for realistic desires, greetings, or things you can actually ask for, like wishing for a physical gift. For a hypothetical, unreal wish about a situation you want to be different, you use the special exclamation gid.
Why is it den fantastiske udsigt and not den fantastiske udsigten?
Danish doesn't usually stack definite markers. When you put an adjective before a definite noun, you must use the separate front article (den for n-words) and keep the noun itself in the base indefinite form (udsigt). You don't add the -en to the end of the noun.
What dictates the -e at the end of fantastiske?
Whenever an adjective follows a definite article like den, det, or de, it is in its definite form. For almost all Danish adjectives, the definite form simply adds an -e to the base word.