Har De denne kjole i en anden størrelse?

De is the formal/polite way to say you in Danish. It is traditionally used when speaking respectfully to a customer, an older person, or in very formal situations.

It is capitalized to show that it is the polite form. In modern Danish, this form is much less common than it used to be, and most people would normally say du instead.

So this sentence sounds polite and a bit formal, like something you might hear in a traditional shop.

In Danish, yes/no questions are usually formed by putting the verb first.

So:

• De har denne kjole ... = You have this dress ... / You have this dress...
• Har De denne kjole ...? = Do you have this dress ...?

This is similar to English using do or changing word order:

• You have this dress.
• Do you have this dress?

Danish does not need a separate helping verb like do here; it simply moves the main verb to the front.

Denne means this.

It is used because kjole is a common-gender singular noun. In Danish, this/that changes form depending on gender and number.

For singular:

• denne = this with common-gender nouns
• dette = this with neuter nouns

Since kjole is common gender, you say denne kjole.

Because after denne, Danish uses the noun in its basic indefinite form, not the definite form.

So:

• kjole = dress
• kjolen = the dress

With denne, you say:

• denne kjole = this dress

Not:

• denne kjolen

This is different from some learners’ expectations, because English uses this + noun without changing the noun, and Danish does something similar here.

Literally, it means in another size or in a different size.

In shop language, this is the normal way to ask whether something is available in a different size.

So i here does not mean physical location in the usual sense. It is part of the expression for availability:

• i en anden størrelse = in another size
• i en større størrelse = in a larger size
• i min størrelse = in my size

Because størrelse is a common-gender noun, so it takes en.

Also, the adjective changes to match the noun:

• common gender singular: anden
• neuter singular: andet
• plural: andre

So:

• en anden størrelse = another/different size
• et andet problem = another/different problem
• andre farver = other colors

It can mean either, depending on context.

In this sentence, en anden størrelse could be understood as:

• another size
• a different size

In natural English, a different size is often the best translation, but another size is also possible.

The sentence itself is natural, but De makes it sound formal and somewhat old-fashioned to many modern speakers.

A more everyday version would usually be:

• Har du denne kjole i en anden størrelse?

That is what you would normally say in most shops today.

So the structure is completely normal, but the level of politeness is more formal than everyday speech.

Yes. I means you when speaking to more than one person.

But in a shop, Danish speakers often use I when speaking to the staff collectively, even if only one person answers, especially if they mean does the shop have...

So:

• Har du ...? = asking one person informally
• Har De ...? = asking one person formally
• Har I ...? = asking several people, or the shop/staff in a practical sense

In modern spoken Danish, Har I ...? is very common in shops.

A careful approximation is:

Har De denne kjole i en anden størrelse?

Something like:

ha de den-ə KYO-lə i en AN-ən STUHR-əl-sə

A few helpful notes:

• Har often sounds more like ha
• De is usually pronounced like dee or a softer de
• denne has a weak second syllable
• kjole begins with a sound somewhat like kyo-
• størrelse is tricky; the ø sound does not exist in English, and the word often gets reduced in natural speech

Danish pronunciation is often much softer and more reduced than the spelling suggests.

Here is the breakdown:

• Har — verb, present tense of have
• De — pronoun, formal you
• denne — demonstrative, this
• kjole — noun, dress
• i — preposition, in
• en — indefinite article, a/an
• anden — adjective/determiner, other/another/different
• størrelse — noun, size

So the sentence structure is basically:

Verb + subject + object + prepositional phrase

That is very typical for Danish yes/no questions.