Mini Grammar Book English Danish.pdf

MINI GRAMMAR BOOK

ENGLISH

DANISH

English

Danish

minigrammar

The UNIVERB language courses

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The UNIVERB language courses

are based on the well known method:

LISTEN—REPEAT—LEARN!

The course is bilingual: Each phrase is ﬁrst pronounced

in English, then repeated slowly in Danish, leaving you a chance

to catch the proper pronunciation. A short interval in the record-

ing gives you an opportunity to repeat the sentence yourself,

upon which the sentence is repeated at normal speed.

The course is easy to follow and it is you alone who choose

where and when you want to practise.

To make the course as interesting and as viable as possible,

we have concentrated on words and phrases

which you will often need when travelling abroad.

Each course consists of approx. three hours’ training,

two training books and this miniature grammar showing

the fundamental grammatical rules of the Danish language.

The UNIVERB language courses

make it easy for you to start learning a new language

or to brush up your existing knowledge.

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You practise your pronunciation and enhance your vocabulary.

Contents

Preface

Preface ................................................................................7

Spelling and Pronunciation ..................................................9

Nouns ...............................................................................20

Adjectives ..........................................................................23

Adverbs .............................................................................25

Verbs .................................................................................26

Pronouns ...........................................................................33

Prepositions .......................................................................40

Danish is the ofﬁcial language in Denmark and an ofﬁcial

language on the Faeroe islands and in Greenland. Danish is

taught as a foreign language in Iceland. In the rest of Scandi-

navia including Finland, people with a working knowledge

of Danish will always be able to understand, at the very least,

ofﬁcial notices, and to make themselves understood, as the

differences between Norwegian and Swedish lie mainly in

the pronunciation. Swedish is one of the ofﬁcial languages in

Finland.

In Denmark, Danish is spoken by approx. 5 million people.

Danish belongs to the Germanic language group, and many

scholars believe that English has its origin in Danish. Even

though this is not immediately evident in the everyday lan-

guage, striking similarities am deﬁnitely there and can be

easily observed in the structure as well as in the vocabulary

of the two languages. Thus, englishspoken people can rest as-

sured that acquiring a working knowledge of Danish is by all

means possible.

The purpose of this book is to present an easily comprehen-

sible survey of Danish grammar. A strictly practical approach

has been followed. In the hope that this book can encourage

further studies, we wish you good luck as you set out.

Spelling and Pronunciation

The alphabet

Danish uses the same alphabet as English, with three addi-

tional letters which are placed at the end of the alphabet:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZÆØÅ

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v x y z æ ø å

Spelling

To most foreigners, the relation between pronunciation and

spelling is not immediately clear. In Danish, an extensive use

is made of mute letters and in some cases, the distinction

between letters is decided only by a very ﬁne margin. E.g.

we write dukke (doll), but pronounce it dåke; we write pege

(point), but we pronounce it peje . However, this should not

discourage you, as the Danes — with whom you share your

difﬁculties — will allow you a wide margin for mistakes, and

also because spelling is only rarely essential to comprehen-

sion.

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