{"id":1158,"date":"2014-10-27T23:55:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T23:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2014-10-27T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T23:59:03","slug":"veries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2014\/10\/27\/veries\/","title":{"rendered":"Veries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"very\"<\/a>To say something is \u201dvery something\u201d, the ordinary Danish word to use is meget<\/b>:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Du ser meget glad og tilfreds ud.<\/b> You look really happy and content.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Jeg er meget overrasket!<\/b> I\u2019m very surprised!<\/p>\n

This word sounds nothing like it\u2019s written. It\u2019s usually pronounced [maath], somehow rhyming with the first syllable of the English word rath<\/i>er<\/i>. If you watch tv in Denmark and hear a politician saying Det\u2019 [maamaath] vigtigt<\/b>, she\u2019s really just saying Det er meget, meget vigtigt. <\/b>(It\u2019s really, really important.)<\/p>\n

The language spoken in the streets of Denmark has a lot of ways to express the idea of very<\/i>. Many young people say mega<\/b> [MEHgah]: Det er bare mega<\/i> irriterende. <\/b>(That\u2019s just \u2019mega\u2019<\/i> irritating. \u2013 It\u2019s often written as two words since mega<\/b> has an independent stress and can be seen as an adjective here.) If you think this is just<\/i> another international \u201dbug\u201d in Danish, well, look how closely it also<\/i> resembles the good ol\u2019 word meget<\/b>\u2026 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

There are a lot of other slang words like this. Some have been in the language for a while (and are at least a bit accepted):<\/p>\n

\u2022 smadder-<\/b>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Du er smadders\u00f8d. <\/b>(You\u2019re very\/so cute. This is already a bit old-fashioned.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 skrup- \u2022 Han er skrupsk\u00f8r. <\/b>(He\u2019s totally crazy.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 kanon- \u2022 Det smagte kanonl\u00e6kkert!<\/b> (It tasted \u201dcanonically\u201d delicious!)<\/p>\n

\u2022 d\u00f8d- \u2022 Jeg synes hun er d\u00f8dsmuk. <\/b>(I think she\u2019s \u201ddeadly\u201d beautiful.)<\/p>\n

Others are quite recent and are mostly used by youngsters:<\/p>\n

\u2022 super \u2022 Det er super \u00e6rgerligt. <\/b>(That\u2019s \u2019super\u2019 annoying.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 herre- \u2022 Filmen var herregrineren.<\/b> (The movie was very fun. \u2013 Litterally: The movie was \u2019lord-ishly\u2019 \u2019laughter-ish\u2019.)<\/p>\n

A few are based on swear words \u2013 some people might get offended, so I recommend not using these too often! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u2022 skide<\/b>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0Vi havde det skide hyggeligt.<\/b> (We were enjoying ourselves very much. Literally: We had it hyggeligt <\/b><\/a>like sh*t.)<\/p>\n

\u2022 pisse \u2022<\/b> Det er pisse ligegyldigt.<\/b> (That doesn\u2019t matter at all. Literally: That\u2019s indifferent like p*ss.) <\/b><\/p>\n

Here we also find the f-ing<\/i> word, taken directly from English, but used without the sexual meaning in Denmark (it\u2019s just a \u201dbad word\u201d used to intensify a meaning).<\/p>\n

Finally, a handful of words have their very own \u201dvery prefixes\u201d that are normally not used in front of other words:<\/p>\n

\u2022 p\u00e6redansk \u2022\u00a0<\/b>(very Danish, literally \u201dDanish like a pear\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

To say something is \u201dvery something\u201d, the ordinary Danish word to use is meget: \u2022 Du ser meget glad og tilfreds ud. You look really happy and content. \u2022 Jeg er meget overrasket! I\u2019m very surprised! This word sounds nothing like it\u2019s written. It\u2019s usually pronounced [maath], somehow rhyming with the first syllable of the…<\/p>\n

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