Jeg blev glad, da min ven kom.

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Breakdown of Jeg blev glad, da min ven kom.

• min: my
• blive: to become
• glad: happy

Questions & Answers about Jeg blev glad, da min ven kom.

Why does the sentence use blev instead of var?

Blev is the past tense of blive, which often means become.

So Jeg blev glad means I became happy or I got happy. It focuses on the change of state.

If you said Jeg var glad, that would mean I was happy, describing a state rather than the moment the feeling started.

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What tense are blev and kom?

Both are in the simple past.

• blev = past of blive
• kom = past of komme

So the whole sentence is talking about something that happened in the past:
I became happy when my friend came.

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What does da mean here?

Here da means when and refers to a specific event in the past.

In Danish:

• da = when, for a one-time event in the past
• når = when, for repeated events, general truths, or future meaning

So in this sentence, da min ven kom means when my friend came on that particular occasion.

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