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Danish sentence structure

 
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Basic structure
S
subject
V
finite verb
adverbial v
infinitive
indirect object prep O
object
til+io adverbial
Han skriver         et brev    
He writes/is writing         a letter    

The basic structure is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), as in English.

The present continuous (is writing) doesn't exist as a separate form in Danish.

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