Rabatten er god for hende.

to be

Breakdown of Rabatten er god for hende.

• for: for
• hende: her
• god: good

Questions & Answers about Rabatten er god for hende.

Why is it rabatten and not just rabat?

Danish usually shows the definite form (the English “the …”) by adding an ending to the noun instead of using a separate word.

• rabat = a discount (indefinite)
• rabatten = the discount (definite)

So rabatten er god means “the discount is good”, not just “discount is good.”
In Danish you almost always need to mark definiteness somehow; you can’t normally leave a bare noun like in English.

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What grammatical gender is rabat, and how does that affect the form rabatten?

Rabat is a common gender (en-word) noun:

• en rabat = a discount
• rabatten = the discount

For common gender nouns, the definite singular ending is typically -en:

• en bil → bilen (the car)
• en bog → bogen (the book)
• en rabat → rabatten (the discount)

If it were a neuter noun (et-word), the ending would usually be -et (e.g. et hus → huset).

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Why is the verb er used, and does it change with the subject?