Breakdown of Rosen vil bare gøre hende forlegen.
hende
her
ville
want to / will
bare
just, only
gøre
to do / to make (cause to be)
rosen
the praise
forlegen
embarrassed
Questions & Answers about Rosen vil bare gøre hende forlegen.
Why do we use gøre here instead of få or lave to mean 'make'?
In Danish, when you want to say 'make [someone] [adjective]', you use the verb gøre. You would use få if you were making someone do an action (like få hende til at grine - make her laugh), and lave when physically creating something.
Does Rosen mean 'the rose' (the flower) here?
No, it is a completely different word! Here, Rosen is the definite form of the noun en ros, which means 'praise'. By adding the -en ending, it becomes 'the praise'. It just happens to be spelled exactly like the definite form of the flower.
Does the adjective forlegen need to agree with anything in this sentence?
Yes, in the gøre + object + adjective construction, the adjective must agree with the object. Since the object is hende (her) — a singular, common-gender pronoun — we use the basic form forlegen. If the object were plural, like dem (them), it would change to gøre dem forlegne.
Why does bare come right after vil?
Bare (just) is a central adverb. In a main clause, the rule is that central adverbs are placed immediately after the first (finite) verb. That is why it splits the verbs vil and gøre.
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