Aftenrutinen bliver lettere, når børnene går tidligt i seng.

to become

Breakdown of Aftenrutinen bliver lettere, når børnene går tidligt i seng.

• når: when
• tidligt: early
• barnet: the child

Questions & Answers about Aftenrutinen bliver lettere, når børnene går tidligt i seng.

Why is aftenrutinen written as one word?

Because Danish forms compound nouns very freely.
Here, aften + rutine becomes aftenrutine = evening routine.

Then Danish adds the definite ending directly to the noun, so:

• aftenrutine = an evening routine
• aftenrutinen = the evening routine

This is very common in Danish. English often writes similar ideas as separate words, but Danish usually combines them.

Why does aftenrutinen end in -n?

That -n is the definite article, meaning the.

In Danish, the is often attached to the end of the noun instead of standing as a separate word in front of it.

For this noun:

• en rutine = a routine
• rutinen = the routine

Since aftenrutine ends in an unstressed -e, the definite singular form is aftenrutinen.

So English the evening routine becomes Danish aftenrutinen.

Why does the sentence use bliver lettere instead of er lettere?