Breakdown of Vi svarer på henvendelsen vedrørende direktørens udtalelse.
vi
we
på
on / at / in (a language) / of (after nouns like end or start)
svare
to reply
direktøren
the director (of a company)
Questions & Answers about Vi svarer på henvendelsen vedrørende direktørens udtalelse.
Why do we use vedrørende here, and could we use angående instead?
Yes, you could use angående instead. Both are present participles used as prepositions meaning 'regarding' or 'concerning'. Vedrørende comes from the verb vedrøre (to concern) and is heavily used in official or formal correspondence. Angående is slightly more common in everyday speech, but they are generally interchangeable here.
Why does the sentence use svarer på instead of besvarer?
Both mean 'answer', but svare requires the preposition på to connect to an object, whereas besvare is transitive and takes a direct object without a preposition. You could rephrase this as Vi besvarer henvendelsen, which sounds slightly more formal.
What exactly is a henvendelse?
En henvendelse translates to 'an inquiry', 'an approach', or 'a contact'. It comes from the verb henvende sig (to apply to / approach) and is the standard term used in customer service or official contexts when someone reaches out with a question, complaint, or request.
Why doesn't udtalelse have a definite article if we are talking about a specific statement?
In Danish, when a noun is preceded by a possessive word or a genitive noun ending in 's' (like direktørens), the possessed noun must always be in its bare, indefinite form. Even though we translate it as 'the director's statement', adding the definite suffix to make it direktørens udtalelsen is grammatically incorrect.