Vi tager den samme bus til universitetet om morgenen.

the morning

Breakdown of Vi tager den samme bus til universitetet om morgenen.

• til: to
• vi: we
• om: in

Questions & Answers about Vi tager den samme bus til universitetet om morgenen.

Why is the verb tager used here?

In Danish, tage is very commonly used for transport in the sense of take or catch.

So:

• tage bussen = take the bus
• tage toget = take the train
• tage bilen = take the car

That is why Vi tager ... bus sounds natural here. It is the normal everyday verb for using a form of transport.

Why is it den samme bus and not just samme bus?

In Danish, samme usually needs a determiner before it when it modifies a singular countable noun.

So you say:

• den samme bus = the same bus
• det samme hus = the same house

For English speakers, it may help to think of samme as normally needing something like the/that in front of it.

So den samme bus is the natural form here.

Why is it den samme bus and not den samme bussen?

Because after den/det/de + adjective, Danish normally uses the noun in its basic form, not the ending definite form.

Compare:

• bussen = the bus
• den røde bus = the red bus
• den samme bus = the same bus