Dataloftet er lavt.

The data cap is low.

Breakdown of Dataloftet er lavt.

• være: to be
• lav: low
• dataloftet: the data cap

Questions & Answers about Dataloftet er lavt.

Why is dataloftet written as one word?

Because Danish usually writes compound nouns as a single word.
So data + loft becomes dataloft.

This is very common in Danish, much more so than in English. English often writes similar expressions as two words, but Danish prefers one compound word.

A useful rule:

• the last part is the main noun
• it decides the word’s grammatical gender and inflection

Here, the main part is loft, so dataloft behaves grammatically like loft.

Why does dataloftet end in -et?

The -et is the definite article attached to the end of the noun. In Danish, the is often added as a suffix instead of being a separate word.

So:

• et dataloft = a data cap
• dataloftet = the data cap

This happens with many Danish nouns:

• et hus → huset
• et bord → bordet

Since dataloft is a neuter noun, its singular definite ending is -et.

Why is it et dataloft and not en dataloft?