Jeg ser månen, og den er stadig smuk.

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Breakdown of Jeg ser månen, og den er stadig smuk.

• og: and
• se: to see
• være: to be
• månen: the moon
• den: it
• smuk: beautiful
• stadig: still

Questions & Answers about Jeg ser månen, og den er stadig smuk.

How do I pronounce “Jeg ser månen, og den er stadig smuk”?

In Danish, jeg sounds a bit like “yigh” (rhymes with “pie”), ser is pronounced roughly as “sair,” månen is “moh-nen” (with a long “o” sound), og is typically pronounced more like “oh,” den sounds like “den” in English, er like “air,” stadig like “sta-thee” (with a soft “d”), and smuk like “smook.”

Why do we use “den” instead of “det” when referring to “månen”?

In Danish, månen (“the moon”) is a common gender noun (sometimes also called the “n-” gender), so the pronoun that corresponds to it is den. You’d use det for neuter gender nouns (like barnet, “the child”).

What does “stadig” mean in this sentence?

Stadig generally means “still” or “continuously” in English. Here, it emphasizes that the moon remains beautiful.

Do we ever separate “og” with a comma in Danish like we might in English?

Generally, you don’t place a comma before og when it simply connects two independent clauses or items in a list, unless you’re using the optional “Oxford comma” style. The rules in Danish are somewhat flexible, but many modern writers do not use a comma before og.

Why is the word order “den er stadig smuk” and not “den stadig er smuk”?

In Danish, the verb usually comes second in a main clause, so we say den er stadig smuk (literally: “it is still beautiful”). Placing stadig before er would sound unnatural in standard Danish word order.