Questions & Answers about De kommuniserer med politiet.
Here, De most likely means they.
It is capitalized because it is the first word in the sentence. In the middle of a sentence, you would normally write de.
So if the same sentence appeared after another word, it would usually look like this:
- I dag kommuniserer de med politiet. = Today they are communicating with the police.
Yes. De can also be a very formal, old-fashioned way to say you in Norwegian.
However, that use is rare in modern everyday Norwegian. Most of the time, learners will see de meaning they.
At the beginning of a sentence, De is ambiguous by itself, because both they and formal you would be written with a capital D there. You normally tell from context or from the translation.
Kommuniserer is the present tense of å kommunisere = to communicate.
So:
- å kommunisere = to communicate
- kommuniserer = communicate / is communicating / are communicating
A useful point for English speakers: Norwegian often uses the simple present where English might use either communicate or are communicating. Context tells you which meaning is intended.