adjectives Flashcards

1
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Do adjectives ending in t declinate normally?

A

No. They don’t take an extra t in indefinitive form with t nouns. Otherwise as normal.

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Do adjectives ending in v declinate normally?

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The spelling can change eg grov to groft and stiv to stift with t nouns

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How does irregular adjective lille declinate?

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en lille pige, et lille barn, små piger, den lille pige, det lille barn, de små piger

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4
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How do irregular adjectives ending in å declinate?

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they don’t take e with plural or definitive eg en blå skjorte, et blåt halstørklæde, de blå bukser

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5
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How do adjectives ending in el en er declinate?

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They drop the e when the declination requires an e adding. If the el is stressed an le is added instead of the e being dropped. If a double consonant precedes the er then one of the consonants is dropped with the e.

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How do adjectives ending in et declinate?

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They don’t add a t in indefinitive t nouns and the t is switched to a d before adding the e in plural and definitive forms.

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How do adjectives ending in a short stressed vowel + consonant declinate

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Normally in indefinitive forms and with an extra consonant added before the e in plural and definitive forms.

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8
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Translate a posh girl, the posh girl,

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en flot pige, den flotte pige

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an ugly house, ugly houses

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et grimt hus, grimme huser

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A slow bus, the slow bus

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en langsom bus, langsomme buser

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a light bike, the light bike

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en let cykel, den lette cykel

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a pretty girl, pretty girls

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en smuk pige, smukke piger

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a tired boy, tired boys

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en træt dreng, trætte drenge

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a fat girl, fat girls

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en tyk pige, tykke piger

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a dry car, dry cars

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en tør bil, tørre biler

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16
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How do you declinate adjectives ending in e

A

You don’t they keep their basic form in all cases.

17
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How do you declinate adjectives ending in an s?

A

You don’t they keep the same basic form in all cases. Exceptions to this rule include adjectives ending in øs.

18
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Give some examples of when adjective order is different in Danish vs English

A

et nyt, stort hus, en gammel, hvidhåret mand,

19
Q

Translate: the first three days

A

de tre første dage

20
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Translate: for the last ten years we have lived in Aarhus

A

de ti sidste år har vi boet i Arhus

21
Q

Translate for the last ten years of his life he wrote no poems

A

de it sidste år af sit liv skrev han ingen digte.

22
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What is the word order when last is used to mean most recent? What is it when it is used in absolute sense to mean the very last?

A

sidste x år vs x sidste år

23
Q

Where is worth (værd) placed in a sentence?

A

at the end

24
Q

Translate half an hour

A

En halv time

25
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Translate indefinitive pronoun some

A

nogen, noget, nogle

26
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Translate indefinitive pronoun no (plural)

A

ingen, intet, ingen,

27
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How do you declinate an adjective following ingen? Inget? Ingen?

A

As normal

28
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How do you declinate an adjective following en anden? Et andet? Andre?

A

As normal

29
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How do you declinate adjectives following hvilken, hvilken, hvilke?

A

As normal

30
Q

Translate hvad for en?

A

Which

31
Q

Translate an expensive jacket like that

A

sådan en dyr jakke

32
Q

Translate what beautiful weather

A

sikket et fint vejr

33
Q

Translate she will never get fat

A

Hun bliver aldrig tyk

34
Q

If you have an adjective placed directly after a noun in a sentence do you declinate as if the adjective were before the noun?

A

Yes

35
Q

Translate the guests happy and in high spirits stayed until midnight

A

Gæsterne, glade og opstemte, blev til midnat

36
Q

What declination is used when a subject has a general, abstract or collective sense eg fruit is healthy, fish is expensive.

A

Neuter. Eg frugt er sundt, fisk er dyrt. It is because the expression is a shortening of it is healthy to eat fruit which would be det er sundt at spise frugt. It’s normal for the adjective to verb noun construction use an adjective with a neuter declination

37
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Translate the chairs are painted (when the meaning is that the chairs are in a painted state)and then to mean the chairs are painted ( an ongoing action)

A

stolene er malede

stolene er malet

38
Q

Translate at arbejde of at hvile er lige nødvendigt

A

To work and rest are equally necessary

39
Q

Do adjectives ending in (i)sk declinate in the normal way

A

Not with t nouns. In this case they don’t take a t with an indefinitive noun. However plural and with a definitive declension is as normal i.e. with an e.