Word
Læreren for sit vedkommende er vant til at lytte til baggrundsmusik.
Meaning
The teacher, for his part, is used to listening to background music.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Læreren for sit vedkommende er vant til at lytte til baggrundsmusik.
læreren
the teacher
sit
his/her/its own (neuter)
at
to
til
to (preposition) / for (purpose) / at (an event or occasion) / at (good at something)
Questions & Answers about Læreren for sit vedkommende er vant til at lytte til baggrundsmusik.
Why does this sentence use sit in for sit vedkommende instead of hans or hendes?
Could I put for sit vedkommende at the beginning of the sentence instead?
Yes, you can move it to the front to really emphasize the contrast, but you have to apply the V2 rule (verb in the second position). It would become: For sit vedkommende er læreren vant til... Placing it directly after the subject, as shown in this sentence, is a very natural way to translate "for his part."
Why do we have the word til twice in vant til at lytte til?
They belong to two completely separate fixed phrases that just happen to appear together here. The adjective vant requires til to mean "used to" doing something. Later in the sentence, the verb at lytte requires its own til to mean "listen to" something specific. Danish keeps both prepositions even when it feels repetitive.
I often mix up vant (used to) and vand (water) because they sound identical. Is there a rule to remember the spelling?