De har lige lukket vinduet, fordi det begynder at regne.

the window

Breakdown of De har lige lukket vinduet, fordi det begynder at regne.

• at: to
• have: to have
• det: it

Questions & Answers about De har lige lukket vinduet, fordi det begynder at regne.

Why is it har lukket and not just lukkede?

Danish has two common past forms here:

• De har lukket vinduet = They have closed the window (present perfect)
• De lukkede vinduet = They closed the window (simple past)

In this sentence:

De har lige lukket vinduet, fordi …
They have just closed the window, because …

har lukket is used to stress a very recent action whose result is important now (the window is now closed).

With lige (“just (now)”), both are possible:

• De har lige lukket vinduet – very recent, result still relevant.
• De lukkede lige vinduet – also idiomatic; more like narrating what happened just then.

So har lukket isn’t “more correct”, it just slightly emphasizes the current result more than lukkede.

Why is lige placed between har and lukket?