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Questions & Answers about Hvis sommeren er varm nok, får vi en god høst af både tomater og græskar.
Why is it sommeren and not just sommer?
Sommeren is the definite form, meaning the summer.
In Danish, the seasons are often used in the definite form when talking about a specific season in a particular year or situation:
- sommeren = the summer
- vinteren = the winter
So Hvis sommeren er varm nok is literally If the summer is warm enough.
If you said Hvis en sommer er varm nok, that would sound more like If a summer is warm enough in a more general, less specific sense.
Why does it say får vi instead of vi får?
This is because of the Danish V2 rule in main clauses.
When something other than the subject comes first in a main clause, the finite verb must come second. Here, the sentence begins with the subordinate clause:
- Hvis sommeren er varm nok
After that, the main clause starts, and the verb comes before the subject:
- får vi en god høst
So:
- Hvis sommeren er varm nok, får vi ...
not
- Hvis sommeren er varm nok, vi får ...
This is very common in Danish word order.
Why are er and får in the present tense, even though this is about the future?