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After completing this lesson you will be able to:

• Talk about your work
• Say you've started something
• Say you've finished something
• Ask for an explanation

You can work part-time or full-time:

Danes look for a job if they do not have one:

If you have already applied, you can say:

Most people are paid on a monthly basis:

When saying what you are paid, you most often say "jeg får..."

If you are saying what you have after taxes for instance, you say "jeg har..."

Although Danes are not too happy to talk about their pay, you can still ask:

When a person is going to get started, or begin something, you can ask if the person is ready. Danish has two words for it, which can almost be used interchangeably.

When a person is done, finished, with something, or is close to it, you say:

Notice that finished is an adjective and compared as such.

Færdig can also imply a physical state: "jeg er helt færdig," after training for instance.

Or metaphorically: "du er færdig!" meaning, "you're fired."

In Danish,you say "slut" when something is finished, done or ends:

Slut can also work as an adjective:

"Kan du forklare mig..." (can you explain to me)

When personal pronouns are used as objects, such as "mig" above, they are:

Singular:

• 1. person: mig (me)
• 2. person: dig/Dem (You/formal you always capitalized)
• 3. Person: ham (him) / hende (her) / den eller det (it)

• 1. person: os (us)
• 2. person: jer (you / Dem (formal)
• 3. person: dem (them)

Notice how a pronoun functioning as an object is here used to ask for an explanation:

Two things that are important to be able to say in connection with explanations:

Tell Harald and Rasmus that you will explain it later:

You can ask a person to remember something:

You can ask a person if they can remember something:

Somebody can remind you of others:

it could also be that you've tried something that reminds you of something else:

You can have memories of something:

Most countries have their own sayings that are often used completely randomly in all possible situations. The sayings are usually very different when said in other languages, but the meaning is usually the same.

The latter is not really a saying, but something H.C. Andersen has said. But it is quite difficult to argue against.