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Hej, jeg hedder [name]. Hi everybody! I’m [name].
Welcome to DanishClass101.com’s “Dansk på tre minutter”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Danish.
In the last few lessons, you have learned some of the main ways of using the verb at være meaning “to be”. In this lesson we are going to take a look at a new verb, at have, which means “to have.”
You can probably guess that at have can be used to talk about things you own. That will be the topic of this lesson.
Har du en bil? “Do you have a car?”
[slowly] Har du en bil?
Let’s take a closer look at this question.
har means “have”. You can see that at have has been conjugated to har.
du as you know from our previous lessons means “you” and...
en bil, means “a car”
So if you *do* have a car, how can you answer this question?
Just switch the placement of the verb to after the pronoun– it’s really simple! You did it during the last lesson to talk about your age, remember?
“How old are you?” is Hvor gammel er du?
And our answer started with jeg...
So in this case, we go from Har du en bil? to
Jeg har en bil. “I have a car.”
[slowly] Jeg har en bil.
So say, for example, that a classmate wants to borrow a pen from you. He might ask, Har du en kuglepen? Which is “Do you have a pen?”
If you only have a red pen, you can answer Jeg har en rød kuglepen. “I have a red pen.”
Okay, so now let’s look at another way of using the verb at have. Say that you want to have something. You can use at have with the verb vil “to want.” To form the sentence “I want”
So let’s look at it. Say you want an orange. The sentence would sound like this-
Jeg vil have en appelsin. “I want an orange”
[slowly] Jeg vil have en appelsin
You can see that vil, meaning “to want”, is placed after the pronoun and before at have meaning “to have”. Not surprisingly, this would translate directly to English as “I want to have an orange”.
Jeg vil have en appelsin.
Now it’s time for [name]’s Insights.
So you might be wondering how to make “I want to have” into the question “do you want?” Well, it couldn’t be simpler! You just switch the place of the pronoun and the verb like har du before.
Vil du have en appelsin? means “Do you want an orange?”
[slowly]Vil du have en appelsin?
In recent lessons, we have learned about the verbs at være, “to be”, and at have, “to have”.
Next time we’ll learn how to use these two verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”.
Did you know that to turn a verb into the negative form in Danish, you just have to add one little word?
I'll be waiting for you with the explanation in the next Dansk på 3 minutter.
På gensyn!

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