Word
Ifølge analysen træner flere og flere om aftenen.
Meaning
According to the analysis, more and more people exercise in the evening.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Ifølge analysen træner flere og flere om aftenen.
om
in, at (with times of day)
aftenen
the evening
træne
to work out; to practise (a sport); to train (a dog)
flere og flere
more and more (with plurals)
Questions & Answers about Ifølge analysen træner flere og flere om aftenen.
Since ifølge analysen starts the sentence, why is the verb træner placed before the subject?
Danish strictly follows the V2 (verb-second) rule in main clauses. Because the prepositional phrase ifølge analysen takes up the first position, the verb træner must take the second position, pushing the subject flere og flere into the third position.
The lesson notes that ifølge is a participial preposition. What does that actually mean for how we use it here?
It simply means that historically, ifølge comes from a verb form, but today it functions exactly like a standard preposition. You just place it directly in front of the noun or pronoun that is the source of the information, just as we do with ifølge analysen.
The English translation includes the word 'people', but the Danish sentence only says flere og flere. Is a word missing?
No word is missing. In Danish, it is very common to use adjectives of quantity independently to represent people. Flere og flere inherently means 'more and more people' in this context, making it completely natural and unnecessary to add a noun like mennesker.
Why does the sentence use om aftenen rather than just translating 'in' to i?
When talking about a habit, a recurring routine, or a general time of day, Danish uses the preposition om followed by the noun in its definite form. So om aftenen expresses that this exercise happens in the evenings as a general trend.