Breakdown of Han vil gerne fremleje tyve kvadratmeter af boligen.
han
he
tyve
twenty
ville
want to / will
gerne
gladly / would like to
Questions & Answers about Han vil gerne fremleje tyve kvadratmeter af boligen.
Why do we use vil gerne here instead of just vil?
While vil means 'want to' or 'will', adding gerne (gladly) softens the phrase to mean 'would like to'. If the sentence was just Han vil fremleje, it would mean 'He wants to sublet' or 'He is going to sublet', which sounds more direct.
How does the word fremleje translate to 'sublet'?
It is a compound word made of frem (forward) and leje (rent). In Danish, the concept of 'renting forward' to someone else is the standard way to express subletting.
Why doesn't kvadratmeter have a plural ending like '-er' when there are twenty of them?
In Danish, many units of measurement do not change their form in the plural. Words like meter, liter, and kvadratmeter stay exactly the same whether you have one or twenty of them.
Why use the preposition af in af boligen?
Here, af is used to indicate a portion or a part of a whole, matching the English 'of'. He is not renting out the entire home, just a specific twenty-square-meter section out of it.