Breakdown of Orkideen trives bare i den høje fugtighed i væksthuset.
i
in
den
the (common, before adjective)
bare
just, only
høj
tall, high
trives
to thrive
orkideen
the orchid
fugtigheden
the humidity
væksthuset
the greenhouse (large/commercial)
Questions & Answers about Orkideen trives bare i den høje fugtighed i væksthuset.
Since trives ends in an -s, is the orchid being acted upon in a passive sense?
No, trives is a deponent verb. It looks passive because of the -s ending, but it has an active meaning (to thrive). You cannot remove the -s to make it active, because the base verb trive does not exist in Danish.
Could I use kun instead of bare here since they both can mean 'just'?
It would change the meaning slightly. Kun means 'only' in an exclusive sense (it thrives there and nowhere else). Here, bare is used more as an emphasizing particle meaning 'simply' (it simply thrives), highlighting how well it does.
Why use the compound word væksthuset instead of translating 'greenhouse' directly?
A direct word-for-word translation like grønthus doesn't exist in Danish. Væksthus (literally 'growth-house') or drivhus are the correct terms for a greenhouse. Since hus is an et-word, the definite suffix makes it væksthuset.
How would an elliptical clause with omend (the focus of this lesson) fit into a sentence like this?
You could add a concession at the very end, like omend langsomt (albeit slowly). Because omend works well in elliptical clauses, you can just drop the pronoun and verb entirely instead of writing out the full clause omend den trives langsomt.
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