Jeg har ondt i …

Say Jeg har ondt i hovedet/halsen/ryggen. Body parts in this construction usually use the definite noun instead of a possessive. Jeg har det ikke godt is a useful general statement.

A single body part can be det ene øre. Siden lørdag marks a starting point; i to dage gives a duration.

Den syvogtyvende april

Appointments combine a date and a clock time: den syvogtyvende april klokken ti.

Ask Er der en tidligere tid? using the comparative already learned. Birth years can be spoken in two groups: nitten femoghalvfems for 1995. Om to uger means in two weeks; it differs from duration i to uger.

Hvil dig / drik nok

Useful health advice uses commands: hvil dig, drik, spis, åbn munden.

In hvil dig, the person addressed uses object pronoun dig.

For several people, say hvil jer. Nok means enough and is unchanged.

A condition with hvis is useful as a simple chunk here; fuller conditional clauses are reviewed later.

Har sovet / er stået op

Use har or er plus a past participle for a completed action relevant now: jeg har sovet, jeg er stået op.

Most verbs use har; many intransitive verbs that express a change of place or state use er.

Learn the auxiliary with the phrase.

The participle does not change for the learner’s sex.

Perfect forms in early fixed story chunks are not a new gender paradigm.

Længere / flere / mere

Use længere for a longer duration or distance, flere for more countable items, and mere for more of an amount. Tre pandekager, ikke flere compares a number; mere vand compares an amount. Lige så … som expresses equality: lige så længe som Findus. Vigtigere end follows the comparative pattern.