Breakdown of Frosten er farlig for de små planter.
være
to be
de
they
planten
the plant
farlig
dangerous
for
for (preposition)
små
small (plural)
frosten
the frost
Questions & Answers about Frosten er farlig for de små planter.
Why is the adjective farlig used here instead of farligt?
Farlig describes Frosten, which comes from the common gender noun en frost. If it were describing a neuter noun, like the water (vandet), you would add a -t and use farligt.
The word for the plants is usually planterne. Why is it just planter here?
Because there is an adjective (små) in front of the noun. In Danish, when you add an adjective to a definite noun, you drop the definite suffix (-ne) from the noun itself and instead use a freestanding definite article before the adjective. For plural nouns, that article is de, making the correct phrase de små planter.
Where does the adjective små come from?
Små is the plural form of the adjective lille (small). It is highly irregular. If the sentence was about one small plant, it would be den lille plante. Because we are talking about multiple plants, lille changes completely to små.
Could I use til instead of for to mean dangerous to the plants?
No, when you are expressing that something is dangerous, harmful, or healthy for someone or something, Danish uses the preposition for. So farlig for is the fixed phrase you need here.
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