1) Key phrases
Hover or focus a Danish phrase to see its English meaning.
- Jeg har erfaring med …
- Mine arbejdsopgaver var …
- Jeg arbejdede der i tre år.
- Jeg har arbejdet her siden 2023.
- Jeg er god til at samarbejde.
PD2 Course · Lesson 3
Work Experience — Min arbejdserfaring
Talk about work history with past tense and present perfect
Goal: Describe previous jobs and tasks, and use present perfect to say how long an experience continues.
Practice first
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Describe your work experience
Listen to work phrases, hover or focus for translation, then build a short work profile.
1. Key work phrases
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Tap to hear Danish. Hover or focus a phrase to see its translation.
2. Build your work profile
Use a previous job or an imagined example.
Jeg arbejdede som … i …. Mine arbejdsopgaver var at ….
Example: Jeg arbejdede som tjener i tre år. Mine arbejdsopgaver var at betjene kunder.
Sentence order
3. Past and present perfect
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Build each Danish sentence.
English
I worked there for three years.
Your sentence
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Review lesson
PD2 · Lesson 3 — read after you practice.
2) Tasks and strengths
Hover or focus a Danish phrase to see its meaning.
- at betjene kunder
- at planlægge arbejdet
- at løse problemer
- at arbejde selvstændigt
- at samarbejde med kolleger
3) Past or present perfect?
Use past tense when the period is finished: Jeg arbejdede der i tre år.
Use har + participle when the experience connects to now: Jeg har arbejdet her siden 2023.
i gives a duration; siden gives a starting point.
Use har + participle when the experience connects to now: Jeg har arbejdet her siden 2023.
i gives a duration; siden gives a starting point.
4) PD2 speaking tip
Support every job title with 1–2 concrete tasks. Instead of only saying Jeg var tjener, add Jeg betjente kunder og gjorde restauranten klar.
Speaking tasks
Say these out loud. Use Listen when you want a model.
One previous job
Say the job, workplace, duration, and two tasks.
Your strengths
Say two things you are good at and give one example.
I or siden
Make one finished sentence with i and one continuing sentence with siden.
Lesson complete
You can now describe previous work and ongoing experience. Continue with goals and future plans.