Breakdown of Jeg følger med i nyhederne hver dag.
jeg
I
hver dag
every day
nyheden
the news
følge med i
to keep up with, to follow
Questions & Answers about Jeg følger med i nyhederne hver dag.
Why is it følger med i instead of just følger?
The verb følger on its own usually means to physically follow someone or something. When you want to say you keep up with or stay informed about something, like the news or a TV series, you use the fixed phrase følger med i.
Could I leave out the preposition i and just say følger med nyhederne?
No, leaving out i changes the meaning. At følge med (without i) means to physically accompany someone or keep pace with a physical object. To mean pay attention to a topic, the full phrase følger med i is always required.
Why does nyhederne end in -erne?
The base word is en nyhed (a piece of news). To make it plural, it becomes nyheder (news). The -ne suffix makes it definite plural, so nyhederne translates to the news. Notice that in Danish, news is treated grammatically as a plural noun, whereas English treats it as singular.
Why is it hver dag and not hvert dag?
The word for day is en dag, which is a common gender (en-word) noun. The word for every must match this gender, so it takes the form hver. If the noun were a neuter (et-word), like et år (a year), you would use hvert, as in hvert år.