Breakdown of Vi har ryddet op hele dagen for at kassere alt skramlet.
vi
we
have
to have
alt
everything / all (neuter, before a noun)
dagen
the day
rydde op
to tidy up
for at
in order to (+ infinitive) / so that (+ clause)
hele
the whole / all of
skramlet
the junk
kassere
to discard
Questions & Answers about Vi har ryddet op hele dagen for at kassere alt skramlet.
The lesson is about dropping the 'e' in plurals for nouns ending in -el. Why does skramlet drop the 'e' here if it is singular?
The root word is skrammel (junk). Just like the syncopation rule you are learning for plurals, nouns ending in -el, -er, or -en also drop their unstressed 'e' when adding the singular definite ending. Instead of the awkward-sounding skrammelet, it becomes skramlet.
Why does the sentence use hele for 'all day' but alt for 'all the junk'?
Danish makes a distinction based on whether a noun is countable. Hel (here in the definite form hele) is used with singular countable nouns to mean 'the whole' of one thing, like the entire day. Al (neuter alt) is used with uncountable mass nouns like skramlet to mean 'every bit of'.
Why is it for at kassere and not just at kassere?
When you want to express the purpose of an action, meaning 'in order to', Danish requires for at before the infinitive. Using just at kassere would lack the sense of intention behind cleaning up.
Why do we say ryddet op instead of opryddet?
The verb is at rydde op (to clean up), which is a phrasal verb consisting of a main verb and a particle. In the active present perfect tense, these stay separate as har ryddet op. You would only combine them into opryddet if you were using it as an adjective to describe a cleaned room.
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