Danish grammar
Participles as adjectives
Participles are verb forms that can describe nouns like adjectives do. Danish has two types: present participles ending in -ende (exciting, working) and past participles (closed, written). When they describe nouns, they follow the same agreement rules as regular adjectives. | |
Present participles: add -ende, never changes | |
Take any verb, add -ende, and you get an adjective that never changes form: | |
spænde → spændende | excite → exciting |
fungere → fungerende | function → functioning |
interessere → interesserende | interest → interesting |