Word
Kvinden kører gaffeltrucken i tre timer.
Meaning
The woman drives the forklift for three hours.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Kvinden kører gaffeltrucken i tre timer.
kvinden
the woman
køre
to drive / to ride (a bike) / to run (of a train or bus service)
tre
three
timen
the hour
Questions & Answers about Kvinden kører gaffeltrucken i tre timer.
How does this sentence relate to the current lesson about the -vis suffix?
While this sentence specifies exactly three hours (i tre timer), you can use the -vis suffix to talk about an unspecified, large amount of time. If she drove the forklift 'for hours', you would say i timevis.
Why do we use i for the duration here instead of the direct translation for?
The preposition i is the standard way to express the duration of an ongoing, continuous action in Danish, translating to 'for' in English. If you instead wanted to say she completed a specific task 'in' three hours, you would use på (e.g., på tre timer).
How is the word gaffeltrucken formed?
It is a compound word combining the native Danish word gaffel (fork) with the English loanword truck. English loanwords are typically assigned the common gender in Danish, so it takes the -en suffix to become the definite gaffeltrucken (the forklift).
Why isn't the plural of time (hour) formed by adding -er?
Because the singular noun time already ends in an unaccented -e, it follows the standard Danish rule of simply adding an -r to make the plural, resulting in timer.