Word
Spørgsmålet gør ham gal og jaloux.
Meaning
The question makes him mad and jealous.
Part of speech
sentence
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Breakdown of Spørgsmålet gør ham gal og jaloux.
og
and
ham
him
spørgsmålet
the question
gøre
to do / to make (cause to be)
Questions & Answers about Spørgsmålet gør ham gal og jaloux.
Why do we use gør here instead of laver or får?
In Danish, gøre is used to express causing a state or emotion, using the pattern gøre + object + adjective. If you were physically creating something, you would use lave (like making a cake). If you were making someone do an action, you would use få.
Do the adjectives gal and jaloux need to match the object ham?
Yes, they describe the object ham, so they must agree with it. Since ham is singular, the adjectives take their basic singular form. If the object were plural, like dem (them), you would add an -e to make it gale. However, jaloux is a French loanword and never changes its ending.
Does gal mean 'angry' or 'crazy' here?
It means 'angry' in this context. While gal can mean crazy, wrong, or rabid, it is extremely common in everyday Danish to mean 'mad' or 'angry'. You could also use vred, which strictly means angry, but gal fits perfectly alongside jaloux.
If I move a time word to the front of this sentence, how does the word order change?
If you add something like I dag (today) to the beginning, the V2 rule kicks in. The verb gør must remain in the second position, so it swaps places with the subject. The sentence becomes: I dag gør spørgsmålet ham gal og jaloux.