Archive for February, 2016
More and Most Danish Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Feb 28, 2016
Strangely, until now I’ve totally forgotten to write about the gradbøjning (”comparison inflection”) of adjectives… As you can probably remember, Danish adjectives take various endings: -e when it’s describing a definite noun (these often come with ”the” in English): den søde pige (the cute girl), den gamle ugle (the old owl), husenes røde farve (the…
Trolls of Denmark Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Feb 25, 2016
Did you know Danmark is full of trolde [trolleh] (trolls)? Ads often want to tell turister (tourists) a ”modern” story about Danish design and H.C. Andersen, so if you haven’t seen en trold in the streets of Copenhagen, it’s probably not your fault! 🙂 Trolls, however, have been around since vikingetiden (the Viking age) –…