Breakdown of Kritikken gør sangeren deprimeret over sin præstation.
sin
his/her/its own (common)
gøre
to do / to make (cause to be)
over
about (after 'to wonder')
præstationen
the performance (how well someone does), the achievement
sangeren
the singer
kritikken
the criticism
deprimeret
depressed
Questions & Answers about Kritikken gør sangeren deprimeret over sin præstation.
Why do we use gør here instead of får?
In Danish, when you want to say that something makes someone a certain way (an adjective), you use gøre (here as gør). We use the structure gøre + object (sangeren) + adjective (deprimeret). You would use få (to get/make) if the second part was an action (a verb), like making someone do something.
Why is it sin when the grammatical subject of the sentence is Kritikken? Shouldn't it be hans or hendes?
This is a tricky exception! Normally, sin refers back to the main subject of the sentence. However, the construction gør sangeren deprimeret creates a "logical clause" where the object (sangeren) acts as the logical subject who is experiencing the feeling. Because the singer is the one depressed about their own performance, we use sin.
Would deprimeret change if the object was plural, like "the singers"?
Yes. Because deprimeret acts as an adjective describing the object, it must agree with it in number. If the sentence were about multiple singers (sangerne), you would add an -e to the adjective and say that the criticism gør sangerne deprimerede.
Why use over instead of om for "about"?
Adjectives describing emotional reactions (like being depressed, angry, sad, or happy) usually take the preposition over in Danish when you are reacting to a specific event, situation, or thing. So, "depressed about" becomes deprimeret over.
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