Min søster er med i mødet.

Min means my and is placed before the noun, just like in English: my sister.

In Danish, possessive words do change depending on the gender/number of the noun:

• min = for common gender singular nouns
• mit = for neuter singular nouns
• mine = for plural nouns

So:

• min søster = my sister
• mit hus = my house
• mine bøger = my books

Because søster is a common gender noun, Danish uses min.

Here, søster means sister in a general possessed form: my sister.

In Danish, when a noun has a possessive like min, din, hans, vores, etc., you normally use the basic indefinite form of the noun:

• min søster = my sister
• hendes bil = her car
• vores hus = our house

You would not usually say min søsteren.

In this sentence, er med means something like:

• is participating
• is included
• is attending
• is taking part

So Min søster er med i mødet means your sister is part of the meeting / attending the meeting.

This is a very common Danish expression. At være med often means to be along, to join in, or to participate, depending on context.

Examples:

• Jeg er med. = I’m in / I’m joining / I understand and agree to take part.
• Er du med? = Are you with me? / Are you following? / Are you joining?

This is one of those combinations that learners simply need to get used to.

• med gives the idea of being included / participating
• i mødet tells you in the meeting

So literally it is close to is with/included in the meeting, but natural English is usually just is in the meeting or is taking part in the meeting.

Danish often uses short prepositional combinations like this:

• være med i noget = be involved in something / take part in something

Examples:

• Hun er med i projektet. = She is involved in the project.
• De er med i konkurrencen. = They are taking part in the competition.

Mødet is the definite form of møde, meaning the meeting.

In Danish, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun:

• et møde = a meeting
• mødet = the meeting

So:

• i et møde = in a meeting
• i mødet = in the meeting

That final -et shows that the meeting is specific.

Yes. Møde is a neuter noun, which is why the indefinite form is et møde and the definite form is mødet.

In Danish, nouns are mainly divided into:

• common gender: take en
• neuter: take et

So you learn nouns together with their article:

• en søster
• et møde

Unfortunately, there is not always a reliable way to guess the gender just from the ending, so learners usually memorize the noun with en or et.

Yes, but the nuance can be a little different.

• Min søster er i mødet = My sister is in the meeting
• Min søster er med i mødet = My sister is taking part in the meeting / involved in the meeting

The version with med emphasizes participation.
Without med, it can simply sound like she is physically or practically in the meeting.

In many situations, both are possible, but er med i often sounds a bit more active.

Sometimes, yes, but it is not exactly the same.

• er til mødet often means is at the meeting
• er med i mødet means is participating in the meeting

So til focuses more on presence at an event, while med i focuses more on involvement/participation.

Compare:

• Hun er til festen. = She is at the party.
• Hun er med i festen. = less natural in that context unless you mean she is actively joining in or involved somehow

For a meeting, med i mødet is a very natural way to say she is part of it.

Danish is a V2 language, which means the finite verb is usually in the second position in main clauses.

In this sentence:

• Min søster = first element
• er = second element
• med i mødet = the rest

So the structure is completely normal Danish word order.

You can see the V2 rule more clearly if something else comes first:

• I dag er min søster med i mødet. = Today my sister is in the meeting.

Here I dag is first, so er still stays second.

The tricky part is ø.

A rough guide:

• søster sounds approximately like SUH-sta or SUR-sta, but neither English spelling is exact.
• The ø sound is a rounded front vowel that English does not really have.

A few pronunciation notes:

• sø- has the unusual vowel
• the r in standard Danish is usually not strongly pronounced like in English
• the final -er in many words is often pronounced more like a soft -a sound

So søster is roughly SØS-tər / SØS-ta, depending on accent and how broad the approximation is.

The best way to learn ø is by listening and repeating rather than relying on English spelling.

Usually, the d in mødet is soft, not a strong English d.

So mødet is approximately like:

• MØ-eth
• or MØ-thəth

But that is only a rough guide.

Important points:

• møde has the vowel ø
• the d is often a soft Danish d, not a hard stop
• the ending -et in connected speech can be quite reduced

This is a good example of why Danish spelling and pronunciation often do not match as neatly as English learners expect.

It is neutral and completely natural in everyday Danish.

You could use it in:

• casual conversation
• work situations
• emails
• normal spoken Danish

It is not especially formal or informal. It is just a standard sentence.

You might hear several similar sentences, depending on the exact meaning:

• Min søster er i mødet. = My sister is in the meeting.
• Min søster deltager i mødet. = My sister is participating in the meeting.
• Min søster er med til mødet. = My sister is along for the meeting / attending the meeting.
• Min søster er til møde. = My sister is in a meeting / at a meeting.

These are related, but not always interchangeable.

A useful distinction:

• er med i mødet = involved in that meeting
• deltager i mødet = more explicitly participates in the meeting
• er til møde = is away attending a meeting / is in meeting mode, often less specific about which meeting