Word
Endvidere har hotellet en stor have.
Meaning
Furthermore, the hotel has a big garden.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
Course
Breakdown of Endvidere har hotellet en stor have.
en
a / an (common)
have
to have
stor
big
hotellet
the hotel
Questions & Answers about Endvidere har hotellet en stor have.
Why is the word order har hotellet instead of hotellet har?
Because the sentence starts with the adverb endvidere. In Danish, any starting element that isn't the subject triggers the V2 rule, meaning the verb (har) must take the second position, pushing the subject (hotellet) to the third position.
Is endvidere used in everyday speech, or is it mostly formal?
Endvidere is quite formal and is mostly found in written Danish, news, or professional presentations. In casual everyday speech, you would be much more likely to hear desuden or derudover for 'furthermore' or 'besides'.
Why does hotellet have a double l when the base word is hotel?
When adding the definite suffix -et to et hotel, the final consonant is doubled to become hotellet. This happens in Danish to indicate that the preceding vowel (the e in -tel) remains short. Without the double consonant, the spelling would imply a long vowel sound.
Why is the adjective stor here instead of stort?
Adjectives must agree with the noun they describe. Because have (garden) is a common gender word (en have), the adjective takes the basic form stor. If the hotel had a big house (et hus, a neuter word), it would be et stort hus.