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Questions & Answers about Bliver vi fyret?
Why use bliver ... fyret here instead of the s-passive form, fyres vi?
The blive-passive is used heavily in everyday spoken Danish to describe a specific, concrete action happening to a subject. The s-passive (fyres) often sounds more formal and is usually reserved for written instructions, manuals, or describing general rules.
The verb bliver is in the present tense, so why is it translated as 'going to be'?
Danish frequently uses the present tense to refer to future events, especially when the context makes it clear that the action lies in the future. You don't need a future auxiliary verb like vil or kommer til at here.
Since the subject is vi (plural), why doesn't the past participle take a plural ending to become fyrede?
When a past participle is used in a blive-passive construction to describe an action taking place, it stays in its uninflected form ending in -t. If you were focusing on the resulting state after the fact, you would treat it as an adjective and add the plural ending: vi er fyrede (we are fired).
Does the verb at fyre literally mean 'to fire' a weapon, just like in English?
No, its literal meaning is to stoke a fire, like in a wood stove or furnace. While it evolved to mean dismissing someone from a job, shooting a weapon would instead be at skyde.