Har De set, om den nyeste version af appen virker bedre, eller skal jeg vente til i morgen?

De is the formal/polite word for you. It is traditionally capitalized to distinguish it from de, which means they.

A few important points:

• De can be used for one person or more than one person.
• In modern everyday Danish, most people would say du instead.
• Using De sounds very polite, formal, and sometimes a bit old-fashioned.

So this sentence has a more formal tone than Har du set ...?

This is the present perfect, just like English Have you seen.

• har = have
• set = past participle of se = see

So:

• Har De set ...? = Have you seen / Have you checked ...?

Danish uses the present perfect much like English does when asking whether someone has already done something.

Literally, set means seen, but in this kind of sentence it often has a wider meaning, like:

• checked
• looked to see
• found out

So Har De set, om ... is very natural Danish for Have you checked whether ...? This is similar to English, where Have you seen if it works? does not always mean literal visual seeing.

Here om means whether / if in an indirect question.

• Har De set, om den nyeste version ... virker bedre? = Have you checked whether the newest version works better?

By contrast, hvis is used for conditional if:

• Hvis den virker bedre, downloader jeg den. = If it works better, I’ll download it.

So the basic difference is:

• om = whether/if
• hvis = if in the sense of in case that / on condition that

This is a very important Danish pattern.

When a noun is definite and has an adjective before it, Danish usually uses:

• den/det/de
  • adjective + noun in its basic form

So:

• den nyeste version = the newest version
• den gamle bil = the old car
• det store hus = the big house

This is different from the simple definite form without an adjective:

• versionen = the version
• bilen = the car

So den nyeste version is the correct structure.

Yes. nyeste is the superlative of ny:

• ny = new
• nyere = newer
• nyest = newest

Before a noun in this definite structure, the superlative usually appears as nyeste:

• den nyeste version

So the sentence is talking about the newest/latest version.

Yes, absolutely. Both are possible, but there is a slight nuance.

• nyeste focuses on newness
• seneste focuses on the most recent one in time

In tech contexts, both can be used for the latest version. In many situations, den seneste version may even sound slightly more natural if the focus is on the most recent release rather than on it being new.

Because app is a common-gender noun:

• en app = an app
• appen = the app

So in af appen, the speaker means of the app.

This is just the normal Danish definite ending -en added to a common-gender noun.

af here means of.

So:

• version af appen = version of the app

Danish often uses af where English uses of to connect two nouns. In this sentence, appen is definite because the speaker means a specific app already known from the context.

Here virker means works / functions.

The verb virke can mean different things depending on context, including:

• work / function
• seem / appear
• have an effect

In a sentence about an app version, virker bedre most naturally means works better or functions better.

bedre is the irregular comparative form meaning better.

It corresponds to:

• god = good
• bedre = better
• bedst = best

Here it works naturally after virker:

• virker bedre = works better

This is similar to English, where we say better, not more good.

Because om introduces a subordinate clause.

Main clauses in Danish usually follow the verb-second pattern, but subordinate clauses do not.

Here we get:

• om den nyeste version af appen virker bedre

with the subject den nyeste version af appen before the verb virker.

A useful thing to remember is that subordinate clauses introduced by words like om, at, fordi, hvis, etc. do not follow normal main-clause inversion patterns.

In this question, skal jeg vente ...? is best understood as:

• Should I wait ...?
• Am I supposed to wait ...?

The verb skal can mean several things depending on context:

• obligation: must
• plan/future arrangement: am/is/are going to
• asking for guidance: should

So here it does not sound like strict obligation. It sounds more like the speaker is asking what the sensible next step is.

Because eller means or, and it introduces an alternative:

• Have you checked whether the newest version works better, or should I wait until tomorrow?

The second part is a direct question by itself:

• Skal jeg vente til i morgen?

So the full sentence joins two ideas:

1. Have you checked whether it works better?
2. Or should I wait until tomorrow?

til i morgen means until tomorrow or sometimes till tomorrow.

• til = to / until
• i morgen = tomorrow

In context, skal jeg vente til i morgen? means Should I wait until tomorrow?

Also, note that modern standard spelling is usually i morgen as two words.

There are two commas for two different reasons.

1. The comma before om marks the start of a subordinate clause:

   • Har De set, om ...

2. The comma before eller separates the two coordinated parts of the sentence.

About the first comma: Danish has had slightly different comma traditions, so you may sometimes see variation, especially around subordinate clauses. But the comma here is very normal and easy to understand.