Lesson 12 - Travelling and Transport
Present Continuous What is it?Present Tense and Present Continuous for the english verb sleep are: I sleep and I am sleeping. In Danish there is no verb form to describe the Present Continuous (I am sleeping) however there are different methods to describe the same mode. Method 1
[subject] [verb1 (physical pos)] 'og' [verb2 (action verb)]
The first verb describes the physical position of the subject (the do'er)
The literal translation of the Danish sentences sound quite humourous but nonetheless this is one of the Danish representations of the Present Continuous. Method 2
[subject] 'er ved at' [infinitive verb]
Method 3
[subject] 'er i gang med at' [infinitive verb]
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