Høsten bliver bedre, jo mere sol haven får i juli og august.

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Breakdown of Høsten bliver bedre, jo mere sol haven får i juli og august.

• i: in
• haven: the garden
• solen: the sun

Questions & Answers about Høsten bliver bedre, jo mere sol haven får i juli og august.

What does jo mere mean in this sentence?

Here jo mere is part of the Danish pattern for the more ..., the ....

So:

• jo mere sol ... = the more sun ...
• combined with bedre = the better

Also, this jo is not the everyday jo meaning something like yes or indeed. In this sentence it is a grammatical marker used in comparisons.

Why is the sentence written Høsten bliver bedre, jo mere ... instead of Jo mere ..., jo bedre ...?

Both versions are possible.

The sentence you have starts with the main idea:

• Høsten bliver bedre, jo mere sol haven får i juli og august.

A very common alternative is the more balanced comparative structure:

• Jo mere sol haven får i juli og august, jo bedre bliver høsten.

In English, that is like the difference between:

• The harvest gets better, the more sun the garden gets and
• The more sun the garden gets, the better the harvest gets

The comma separates the two linked clauses.

Why is the word order jo mere sol haven får?