Jeg har tandpine, og tandbylden bliver større.

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Breakdown of Jeg har tandpine, og tandbylden bliver større.

• og: and
• blive: to become
• har: to have

Questions & Answers about Jeg har tandpine, og tandbylden bliver større.

Why is it jeg har tandpine and not something like jeg har en tandpine?

In Danish, many illnesses, symptoms, and conditions are expressed with har + noun without an article.

So:

• jeg har tandpine = I have toothache
• jeg har feber = I have a fever / I have fever
• jeg har influenza = I have the flu

Using en here would usually sound unnatural. Tandpine is treated more like a general condition than a countable object.

What does tandpine literally mean?

Tandpine is a compound noun:

• tand = tooth
• pine = pain

So it literally means tooth-pain, which corresponds to toothache in English.

Danish makes compound words very freely, so it is useful to get used to reading them as smaller parts joined together.

What is tandbylden made of, and why does it end in -en?