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 |