De deler magten.

In ordinary modern Danish, de most commonly means they when it is the subject of the sentence.

It can also mean formal or polite you, especially in older, very formal, or special contexts. Because De is capitalized at the start of the sentence anyway, capitalization does not help you decide here.

So you need context to know which one it is. If the meaning shown to you is They share the power, then De here is they.

Dele is the infinitive form, meaning to share or to divide.

Deler is the present tense:

• at dele = to share / to divide
• deler = share / shares / is sharing

A very common Danish pattern is:

• infinitive: -e
• present tense: -er or just -r, depending on the verb

So:

• De deler = They share / They are sharing

No. Danish verbs do not change for person or number in the present tense.

So you get:

• jeg deler = I share
• du deler = you share
• han/hun deler = he/she shares
• vi deler = we share
• de deler = they share

That is simpler than English, where he/she/it shares but I/you/we/they share.

In Danish, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun.

So:

• magt = power
• magten = the power

This is very common in Danish:

• bog = book
• bogen = the book

So instead of using a separate word like English the, Danish often attaches it as a suffix.

Magt is a common gender noun in Danish.

That means:

• indefinite singular: en magt
• definite singular: magten

Common gender nouns usually take -en in the definite singular.

For comparison, a neuter noun would usually take -et:

• et hus = a house
• huset = the house

Yes, in this sentence it is very similar to English:

• De = subject
• deler = verb
• magten = object

So it follows a basic subject + verb + object pattern.

However, Danish is a verb-second language in main clauses. That means if another element comes first, the verb still stays in second position:

• De deler magten.
• Nu deler de magten. = Now they share the power.

So this sentence looks simple, but it fits an important Danish word-order rule.

Yes. The verb dele can mean both share and divide, depending on context.

For example:

• De deler en kage. = They share a cake. / They divide a cake.
• De deler magten. = They share the power.

With magten, the idea is usually that power is being shared between people or groups.

It can mean either one, depending on context.

The Danish present tense often covers both:

• They share the power
  and
• They are sharing the power

So De deler magten could describe:

• a general arrangement
• a repeated habit
• something happening now

Danish does not normally need a special -ing form the way English does.

A rough English-friendly approximation is:

dee DAY-lur MAG-ten

A few useful notes:

• De is roughly like dee
• deler has the stress on the first syllable
• magten also has the stress on the first syllable

The real Danish pronunciation is less English-like than this spelling suggests, but that approximation is a helpful starting point for a learner.

The indefinite version of magten is magt.

So:

• magt = power
• magten = the power

If you wanted to include the indefinite article, it would be:

• en magt = a power

But in many contexts, especially with abstract nouns like power, Danish often uses the bare noun or the definite form depending on the meaning.