Learn Danish: Citronen er meget sur. - The lemon is very sour.

In Danish, 'the' is usually attached to the end of the noun. Since citron is a common gender word (an en word), you add -en to the end to make citronen (the lemon). If it were a neuter word (an et word), it would end in -et.

How do you pronounce meget? It doesn't sound the way it is spelled.

The spelling is definitely tricky! The g becomes a soft Danish 'd' (which sounds a bit like the English 'th' in 'breathe'), and the t is completely silent. When spoken naturally, it sounds roughly like 'mah-eth' or 'may-eth'.

Does sur always mean 'sour' when it comes to taste?

While it literally means 'sour' for food like a lemon, sur is also widely used to mean 'angry' or 'grumpy' when talking about people. So if someone says han er sur, they mean 'he is angry', not that he tastes sour!

Why do we use sur here instead of sure or surt?

Adjectives in Danish have to match the noun they describe. Because citronen is singular and a common gender noun (an en word), the adjective takes its basic form, sur. If you were describing a neuter noun (an et word) like æblet (the apple), you would add a 't' to make it surt. If there were multiple lemons, you would add an 'e' to make it sure.