tager

Tager is primarily the present tense form of the Danish verb tage, meaning to take. It is used to express taking or choosing something, performing an action, or assuming a role. The form is common in everyday speech and in written Danish, serving as the core verb in phrases about acquisition, movement, or decision.

In practice, tager appears in many routine constructions. Examples include jeg tager bilen (I take the car), du tager ansvar (you take responsibility), han tager et billede (he takes a photo), and vi tager toget (we take the train). It is also used with infinitives to describe ongoing or future actions, as in hun tager en pause (she takes a break) and man kan sige, at det tager tid (one can say that it takes time).

Tager can also be encountered as a surname in some families and may appear in place names or historical records in Danish-speaking areas. It is not a separate dictionary entry beyond the verb’s present-tense form, but it can occur in proper nouns.

Etymology and related forms: tager is the present-tense form of tage. The root tage originates in Danish and is cognate with related forms in other Scandinavian languages, reflecting a common Germanic heritage.