Learn Danish: Drengen har et flot ansigtstræk ligesom sin far. - The boy has a handsome facial feature just like his father.

Drengen har et flot ansigtstræk ligesom sin far.

The boy has a handsome facial feature just like his father.

Breakdown of Drengen har et flot ansigtstræk ligesom sin far.

Questions & Answers about Drengen har et flot ansigtstræk ligesom sin far.

The lesson is about ligesom. Could I just use som here instead?

You can use som to mean like, but ligesom emphasizes the similarity more strongly, translating to just like or in the exact same way as. In this sentence, ligesom highlights that the boy's facial feature is a direct match to his father's.

Why do we use sin far instead of hans far?

The word sin is a reflexive possessive pronoun meaning his own. Because the father belongs to the subject of the sentence (Drengen), we must use sin. If you used hans far, it would mean the boy has a facial feature just like some other boy's or man's father.

Since træk can be both singular and plural, how do we know ansigtstræk is singular here?

You can tell it is singular because of the neuter article et. If it were plural, meaning handsome facial features, the sentence would drop the et and use the plural adjective form, becoming flotte ansigtstræk.

How is the compound noun ansigtstræk formed?

It is made by combining ansigt (face) and træk (feature). They are glued together with a linking s, which is a very common way to connect nouns in Danish compound words.