Breakdown of Hun møder sin chef på stationen, fordi de skal til samme møde.
Questions & Answers about Hun møder sin chef på stationen, fordi de skal til samme møde.
Sin/sit/sine is the reflexive 3rd‑person possessive that refers back to the subject of the same clause. Here, the subject is Hun (she), so sin chef means “her own boss.”
Using hendes would point to another woman’s boss, not her own.
- Correct here: Hun møder sin chef = She meets her own boss.
- Different meaning: Hun møder hendes chef = She meets another woman’s boss.
De is the subject pronoun “they,” referring to “she and her boss” together. Dem is the object form (“them”) and can’t be used as the subject of the clause.
- Subject: De skal til samme møde.
- Object: Jeg ser dem.
- på stationen = “at the station” as a general location (institution/place you go to). Very idiomatic with places like school, work, hospital, station.
- i stationen = “inside the station” (emphasizes being physically inside the building).
- ved stationen = “by/near the station” (in the vicinity, outside or nearby).
Danish marks definiteness with a suffix.
- Indefinite: en station
- Definite: stationen (“the station”)
There is no separate “the”; it’s attached to the noun.
With a following noun, samme normally takes no article: samme møde, samme hus.
Use det samme only when it stands alone or acts more pronominally:
- Vi skal til samme møde.
- Vi skal til det samme (meeting implied).
- møder (active): “meets” (can be arranged or by chance).
- mødes (reciprocal, passive ending -s): “meet each other,” usually arranged.
- mødes med + person: also “meet up with,” explicitly reciprocal/arranged.
Here, Hun møder sin chef can suggest running into the boss, which fits the reason clause.
They’re different:
- møder is the present tense of the verb at møde (“to meet”).
- møde is a noun (“a meeting”).
So the sentence contains both the verb and the noun with related meanings.
In a subordinate clause, sentence adverbs like ikke go before the finite verb:
- …, fordi de ikke skal til samme møde.
In a main clause, ikke typically comes after the finite verb: - Hun møder ikke sin chef …
Yes. If you start with the subordinate clause, the following main clause must still obey V2 word order:
- Fordi de skal til samme møde, møder hun sin chef på stationen.
Note how møder comes before hun.
Sometimes. For is a coordinating conjunction (“for/because”), linking two main clauses and giving an explanation:
- Hun møder sin chef på stationen, for de skal til samme møde.
You can’t front a for-clause, and fordi is the default for causal subordinate clauses.
- møder/møde: ø is a rounded front vowel; d is often soft like the English “th” in “the” between vowels: [mø-ðɐ]/[mø-ðə].
- chef: initial sound like English “sh”: [ʃeːf].
- stationen: the -tion- is pronounced like “shyohn”: roughly [sta-ʃoː-nən].
- de: usually [di].
- til: [til].
- samme: final -e is a schwa: [ˈsamə].