Questions & Answers about Hun taler med sin mor og laver kaffe samtidig.
Because sin is a reflexive possessive. It refers back to the subject of the sentence, here hun.
- Hun taler med sin mor = she is talking to/about her own mother.
- Hun taler med hendes mor would usually mean she is talking with another woman’s mother, not her own.
This is a very common thing English speakers need to get used to in Danish:
- sin / sit / sine = his/her/their own
- hans / hendes / deres = someone else’s
In Danish, tale med nogen is the normal way to say talk to someone or talk with someone.
So Hun taler med sin mor can naturally mean either:
- she is talking to her mother
- she is talking with her mother
English often distinguishes a little between to and with, but Danish med covers the normal idea here.
Useful comparison:
- tale med nogen = talk to/with someone
- tale om noget = talk about something