Learn Danish: I de senere år er mange unge flyttet til byen. - In recent years many young people have moved to the city.

In Danish, the comparative adjective senere (literally 'later') is the standard and most natural way to express 'recent' when talking about time periods like years or days. Because of this, i de senere år is the fixed expression for 'in recent years'.

Why is the auxiliary verb er used here instead of har to say 'have moved'?

In Danish, verbs describing a change of location or a change of state use være (to be) as their helper verb for the perfect tense. Since moving to the city is a change of location, we say er flyttet instead of har flyttet. You would only use har flyttet if the verb had a direct object, such as moving a piece of furniture.

Where is the word for 'people' in mange unge?

Danish frequently uses adjectives as nouns to describe demographic groups. Here, the plural adjective unge (young) stands completely alone to mean 'young people'. Adding a noun like mennesker (people) is grammatically fine but usually sounds redundant to a native speaker.

Since the subject mange unge is plural, why doesn't the past participle flyttet end in an 'e' (flyttede)?