Terningekastet er højt.

Because Danish, like German, very often makes compound nouns by writing the parts together.

Terningekastet is built from:

• terning = die / dice
• kast = throw / roll
• -et = the for a singular neuter noun

So the full word means something like the dice roll or the throw of the die.

It is the definite article attached to the end of the noun.

In Danish, instead of putting the in front of a noun, you often add it to the noun itself.

For this noun:

• et terningekast = a dice roll
• terningekastet = the dice roll

So -et here works like English the.

Because terningekast is a neuter noun.

In Danish, adjectives often change form to agree with the noun. After er, the adjective still agrees with the subject.

The basic adjective is:

• høj = high

But with a singular neuter noun, it becomes:

• højt

So:

• en stol er høj = a chair is tall/high
• et hus er højt = a house is tall/high
• et terningekast er højt = a dice roll is high

You normally learn the noun together with its article:

• et terningekast

That et tells you it is neuter.

Unfortunately, you often cannot tell noun gender just from the spelling, so the safest habit is to memorize nouns with en or et from the start.

Er is the present tense of at være, which means to be.

So:

• jeg er = I am
• du er = you are
• det er = it is
• terningekastet er højt = the dice roll is high

No, this sentence has a very straightforward word order:

• Terningekastet = subject
• er = verb
• højt = adjective / subject complement

So it follows the same basic pattern as English:

The dice roll + is + high

Danish does have special word-order rules in many sentences, especially the verb-second rule, but in this simple statement the order feels very familiar to an English speaker.

Here højt means high in the sense of having a high value or result, not necessarily physical height.

So in this sentence it refers to the outcome of the roll being high.

Danish uses høj / højt both for literal height and for things like high numbers, high volume, high speed, and so on, depending on context.

The hardest part is ø.

A rough guide:

• højt is one syllable
• the ø sound does not exist naturally in standard English
• it is a front rounded vowel: make a sound somewhat like eh / er, but with rounded lips

The øj part is a glide, and the final t is pronounced.

A rough approximation for an English speaker might be something like huyt or hoyt, but neither is exact. If you want good pronunciation, it is worth listening to native audio for høj and højt.

The noun itself would be:

• et terningekast = a dice roll

So a matching indefinite sentence could be:

• Et terningekast er højt.

Grammatically that is fine, though in real usage it may sound a bit generic depending on context. Very often you would use the definite form when talking about one specific roll:

• Terningekastet er højt.

Then Danish uses a different pattern.

You would say:

• det høje terningekast

Notice the changes:

• det = definite article placed before the noun
• høje = adjective in the definite form
• terningekast = noun without the attached -et

So:

• terningekastet er højt = the dice roll is high
• det høje terningekast = the high dice roll

This is a very common point for English speakers to notice: Danish often uses the suffix definite article, but when a definite noun has an adjective before it, you usually also add a separate definite article.

The most useful forms are:

• et terningekast = a dice roll
• terningekastet = the dice roll
• terningekast = dice rolls
• terningekastene = the dice rolls

So the plural indefinite is the same as the singular indefinite in spelling here, which is something Danish does with some neuter nouns.

Not exactly in this sentence. In terningekast, it is part of the compound noun.

You can think of terningekast as a set expression meaning dice roll. The -e- is acting as a linking element inside the compound, not as a separate word you need to translate on its own.

For a learner, the easiest approach is to remember terningekast as one vocabulary item.