Breakdown of Hun er meget politisk aktiv.
være
to be
hun
she
meget
very; much, a lot
aktiv
active
politisk
political
Questions & Answers about Hun er meget politisk aktiv.
Why is it politisk and not politiskt when it acts as an adverb describing aktiv?
Usually, you add a -t to an adjective to turn it into an adverb. However, Danish adjectives ending in -isk (like politisk, automatisk, typisk) are a major exception. They never take a -t ending, whether they act as an adverb or describe a neuter noun.
Would any words change if the sentence was about multiple people instead of just 'Hun'?
Yes, aktiv would change to aktive to match a plural subject (for example, De er meget politisk aktive). But politisk would not change, because it is functioning as an adverb here, and adverbs do not change their form to agree with the subject.
Can politisk aktiv be written as a single compound word?
No, you must keep them separate. While Danish is famous for squishing nouns together into long compound words, an adverb modifying an adjective remains a separate word, exactly as 'politically active' does in English.
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