Part 1 Flashcards
What’s your name?
Hvad hedder du?
Where are you from?
Hvor kommer du fra?
My name is Matthias
Jeg hedder Matthias.
I come from Germany.
Jeg kommer fra Tyskland.
What about you?
Hvad med dig?
,but my father doesn’t come from France.
,men min far kommer ikke fra Frankrig.
Goodbye
Farvel
a wife; the wife; wives
en kone; konen; koner
a house; the house; houses
et hus; huset; huse
a language; the language; languages
et sprog; sproget; sprog
a man
en mand
a city/town
en by
a minute; two minutes
et minut; to minutter
a toilet
et toilet
Approximately ⅔ of the nouns are common gender, and ⅓ of the nouns are neuter gender. There are no fixed rules to determine if a noun is common or neuter gender. But living things such as humans and animals are usually common gender with the article ‘en’.
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The Danish nouns have two genders. Common gender with the article ‘en’ and neuter gender with the article ‘et’.
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The Danish nouns have two genders. Common gender with the article ‘en’ and neuter gender with the article ‘et’.
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Nouns in plural can have three different endings:
1. -(e)r
2. -e
3. - (no ending)
Some nouns don’t follow the pattern described above.
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an apartment; two apartments
en lejlighed – to lejligheder
a child; two children
et barn; to børn
a mother; two mothers
en mor; to mødre
a father; two fathers
en far; to fædre
a brother; two brothers
en bror; to brødre
a daugther; two daughters
en datter; to døtre
a son; two sons
en søn; to sønner
a friend; two friends
en ven; to venner
a cousin; two cousins
en fætter; to fætre
a sister; two sisters
en søster - to søstre
The majority of nouns that end with -el in singular drop the -e in plural.
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an uncle; two uncles
en onkel; to onkler
a bike; two bikes
en cykel; to cykler
In Danish we add an ending to the indefinite noun to give it the definite form – in singular the ending is the same as the article (‘en’ or ‘et’). In English this would be done by putting the article ‘the’ before the noun (‘a man’ - ‘the man’).
Examples:
en bil - bilen / a car - the car
to biler - bilerne / two cars - the cars
