Breakdown of Skuespilleren er sjov, og publikum griner højt.
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In Danish, the definite article (“the”) is usually a suffix attached to the noun, not a separate word.
- en skuespiller = an actor
- skuespilleren = the actor
So -en here means “the” for common-gender nouns (the en-words).
Neuter nouns (the et-words) take -et instead, e.g. et hus → huset (a house → the house).
In Danish, predicate adjectives (adjectives after er, bliver, etc.) usually stay in the basic form (common gender singular) and do not agree in number or definiteness with the noun.
- en sjov skuespiller (a funny actor) – attributive, before the noun
- skuespilleren er sjov (the actor is funny) – predicate, after er
Even though skuespilleren is definite (the actor), the adjective stays sjov, not sjove.