Word
Sikke en skrækkelig film vi ser!
Meaning
What a terrible movie we are watching!
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Sikke en skrækkelig film vi ser!
en
a / an (common)
se
to see / to look at
vi
we
filmen
the film
Questions & Answers about Sikke en skrækkelig film vi ser!
Why do we use Sikke en here instead of Sikke et?
The exclamation Sikke must agree with the noun phrase it introduces. Because film is a common-gender noun (en film), we use Sikke en. If the noun were neuter, like et hus (a house), you would use Sikke et.
Could we use Hvor to make this exclamation instead?
Not with this exact wording. The word Hvor (how) is used directly before an adjective or adverb, rather than a full noun phrase. To use hvor, you would need to change the sentence structure to something like Hvor er filmen skrækkelig! (How terrible the movie is!).
Why doesn't the adjective skrækkelig get an -e or -t ending here?
Adjectives in Danish change based on the noun they describe. Because skrækkelig is describing a singular, common-gender noun (en film) in its indefinite form, it takes the base form with no ending. It would get a -t for a neuter noun, and an -e for plural or definite nouns.
Why is there no word for "that" between film and vi ser?
Just like in English, you can drop the relative pronoun som (that) when it is the object of the clause. You could correctly say Sikke en skrækkelig film, som vi ser!, but it is very common and natural to leave som out in both Danish and English.