Hun hader at vente.

• Hun = subject pronoun, she
• hader = the finite verb, present tense of at hade (to hate)
• at vente = an infinitive phrase, to wait

So the structure is:

subject + finite verb + infinitive phrase

The infinitive phrase at vente is the action that she hates doing.

Here at is the infinitive marker, like English to in to wait.

In Danish, after many verbs, you use at + infinitive:

• elsker at læse = loves reading / loves to read
• kan lide at rejse = likes traveling / likes to travel
• hader at vente = hates waiting / hates to wait

So at vente is the normal form here.

A useful contrast:

• After a modal verb, Danish usually drops at: Hun vil vente = She wants/will wait
• After hader, you keep at: Hun hader at vente

Because after at, Danish uses the infinitive, and the infinitive is vente.

• at vente = to wait
• venter = waits / is waiting

In this sentence, hader is already the main conjugated verb. That means the next verb stays in the infinitive:

• Hun hader at vente ✔
• Hun hader at venter ✘

Yes, hader is the present tense.

But unlike English, Danish verbs do not change for person:

• jeg hader = I hate
• du hader = you hate
• hun hader = she hates
• vi hader = we hate

So hader is the same form with all subjects in the present tense.

That is just a normal difference between the two languages.

English often prefers a gerund after verbs like hate, like, and love:

• She hates waiting

Danish commonly uses at + infinitive instead:

• Hun hader at vente

So even though the Danish form looks more like to wait, the natural English translation is often waiting.

Usually it sounds like a general feeling: she dislikes waiting in general.

So Hun hader at vente most naturally means something like:

• waiting is something she hates
• she is an impatient person
• she really dislikes having to wait

Context can make it refer to the current situation too, but by itself it is most naturally a general statement.

A rough English-friendly approximation is:

hoon HEH-thuh ah VEN-duh

A few notes:

• Hun has a vowel that does not exist naturally in most English accents. hoon is only an approximation.
• In hader, the d is soft, often a bit like the th in this.
• The a in at is usually weak and unstressed in normal speech.
• vente is tricky too; the ending -e is a weak uh sound.

Danish pronunciation is often much less phonetic than spelling suggests, so it is normal if this feels hard at first.

You put ikke after the finite verb:

Hun hader ikke at vente.

That means She does not hate waiting.

So the pattern is:

subject + finite verb + ikke + infinitive phrase

Examples:

• Hun elsker ikke at vente.
• Hun kan ikke lide at vente.

Yes, but the basic sentence is the most neutral one:

Hun hader at vente.

Danish main clauses follow the verb-second rule, often called V2. That means the finite verb stays in the second position if something else comes first.

For example:

• I dag hader hun at vente. = Today, she hates waiting.
• Normalt hader hun at vente. = Normally, she hates waiting.

Notice that when another element comes first, hun moves after the verb:

• I dag hader hun ... not
• I dag hun hader ...

Usually yes: hade is a strong word.

So Hun hader at vente normally sounds stronger than:

• Hun kan ikke lide at vente = She does not like waiting

That said, just like in English, people sometimes use hate a bit loosely in everyday speech to mean really dislike. Context and tone matter.

It is capitalized only because it is the first word of the sentence.

In Danish, pronouns like hun are not normally capitalized in the middle of a sentence:

• Jeg tror, hun hader at vente.

Also, unlike German, ordinary Danish nouns are not capitalized just because they are nouns.

No, not in standard Danish.

With hader, you normally need at + infinitive:

• Hun hader at vente ✔
• Hun hader vente ✘

So if the action itself is what she hates, Danish wants the infinitive marker here.