Breakdown of Skyskraberen har en højde på hundrede meter.
en
a / an (common)
have
to have
hundrede
hundred
meteren
the meter
på
of (a measurement or amount)
skyskraberen
the skyscraper
højden
the height
Questions & Answers about Skyskraberen har en højde på hundrede meter.
Why is the preposition på used here instead of af for "of"?
When expressing measurements, dimensions, or age, Danish uses på instead of af. You will see this in phrases like en højde på (a height of), en vægt på (a weight of), or en pige på ti år (a girl of ten years).
Why isn't meter pluralized to match "a hundred"?
It actually is plural here! The word meter has the same form in both the singular and the plural. You say en meter (one meter) and hundrede meter (a hundred meters).
Could I say et hundrede meter instead of just hundrede meter?
Yes, but it sounds a bit overly formal or emphatic. Just as in English, Danish speakers usually say hundrede rather than strictly specifying et hundrede, unless they need to emphasize that it is exactly one hundred.
Does skyskraberen literally translate to "the skyscraper"?
Almost! A fun detail is that sky means "cloud" in Danish (the sky is himlen). So a skyskraber is technically a "cloud-scraper". The -en at the end is the definite article, making it "the cloud-scraper".
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