{"id":1623,"date":"2017-10-24T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:17:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:17:33","slug":"5-senses-in-danish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2017\/10\/24\/5-senses-in-danish\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Senses in Danish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Synet, duften, smagen, f\u00f8lelsen, oplevelsen\u2026 Danske sm\u00f8rrebr\u00f8d!<\/strong> [The sight, the smell, the taste, the feeling, the experience\u2026 Danish sm\u00f8rrebr\u00f8d<\/strong> open sandwiches!] (Photo courtesy of Daniel Mott at Flickr<\/a>, CC License.)<\/p><\/div>\n

In order to learn Danish you need to keep both \u00f8rer<\/b> (ears) and \u00f8jne<\/b> (eyes) open. To get the full cultural oplevelse <\/b>(experience), however, you have to engage alle dine fem sanser<\/b> (all your five senses).<\/p>\n

H\u00f8resans<\/b> (sense of hearing) or h\u00f8relse<\/b> [hur-l-seh]. H\u00f8rer du hvad jeg siger?<\/b> [hur do va yi seeor] (Do you hear what I\u2019m saying?) Unless you\u2019re d\u00f8v<\/b> (deaf) or h\u00f8reh\u00e6mmet<\/b> (having a bad sense of hearing), my best guess would be that each \u00f8re <\/b>of yours is perfectly fine. You can continue reading without h\u00f8reapparat<\/b> (hearing aid). Lyt lige her\u2026<\/b> (Listen up now\u2026)<\/p>\n

Synssans<\/b> (sense of syn<\/b> [seen<\/i>] \u2013 sight). People who aren\u2019t blind<\/b> [blinn] use \u00f8jnene<\/b> to se<\/b> [seh] (see). Some need the help of briller<\/b> (glasses), kontaktlinser<\/b> (contact lenses) \u2013 or a kikkert<\/b> (pair of binoculars). Hvad kigger du p\u00e5? <\/b>(What are you looking at?)<\/p>\n

Lugtesans<\/b> (sense of smell). One of the worst things about at v\u00e6re fork\u00f8let<\/b> (having a cold) is the nedsat lugtesans<\/b> (reduced sense of smell) you get. N\u00e6sen vil gerne lugte alle verdens lugte og dufte. <\/b>(The nose wants to smell all the world\u2019s smells and scents \u2013 well, most of them! \ud83d\ude42 ) BTW, many Danes associate the verb at lugte<\/b> (to smell) with negative smells like prutter<\/b> (farts), and prefer to use the verb at dufte<\/b> in positive phrases like roserne <\/b>dufter<\/b><\/span> fantastisk i dag<\/b> (\u2248 \u201dthe roses are really emitting a fantastic odour today\u201d).<\/p>\n

Smagssans<\/b> (sense of taste). Tunge\/n<\/b> (the tongue) isn\u2019t only useful when having fun with tongue twisters, but also in alien encounters with yummy Danish mad<\/b> (food). Smager retten s\u00f8dt, surt, salt, bittert \u2013 eller som kylling? <\/b>(Does the dish taste sweet, sour, salty, bitter \u2013 or like chicken?)<\/p>\n

F\u00f8lesans<\/b> (sense of touch). All the Danes who have been grooving in st\u00f8vregn<\/b> [sturwryen] (drizzle, literally \u201ddusty rain\u201d) in front of Orange Scene<\/b> at the Roskilde Festival<\/b> know how great it can be to m\u00e6rke<\/b> (sense, feel) regndr\u00e5berne<\/b> (the raindrops) against your face. It\u2019s also nice to f\u00f8le<\/b> (feel) sommervarmen<\/b> (the summer warmth) and the comfort of a kram<\/b> (hug).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

In order to learn Danish you need to keep both \u00f8rer (ears) and \u00f8jne (eyes) open. To get the full cultural oplevelse (experience), however, you have to engage alle dine fem sanser (all your five senses). H\u00f8resans (sense of hearing) or h\u00f8relse [hur-l-seh]. H\u00f8rer du hvad jeg siger? [hur do va yi seeor] (Do you…<\/p>\n

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