{"id":2113,"date":"2022-02-28T23:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T23:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2022-03-01T00:12:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:12:55","slug":"joys-of-danish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2022\/02\/28\/joys-of-danish\/","title":{"rendered":"Joys of Danish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Image courtesy of Katie Walker<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a>; no copyright.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Since you read this blog last month, a horrible krig<\/strong> [kreey] (war) has broken out in the midst of Europa<\/strong>. Let\u2019s all hope and wish it will end as soon and as peacefully as humanly possible. Verden har brug for fred.<\/strong> (The world needs peace.) And we need to be able to communicate respectfully and try to understand each other, even if we don\u2019t always agree \u2013 isn\u2019t that why we\u2019re language learners, after all?<\/p>\n

Learning, however, isn\u2019t easy when your mind is full of frygt<\/strong> (fear). Focusing on nice and even nerdy things is, I think, the way forward. With that in mind, here are some things I like about Danish:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Danish has even more vowels<\/a> than English! Even if that makes the pronunciation quite hard to master, the many shades of slightly different sounds also give the language its own, weird, blurred beauty. Like watercolour. Y. \u00c6. \u00d8. \u00c5. Isn\u2019t that just pure poetry? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u2022 Danish is a gold mine of delightful expressions<\/a> and idioms, such as der er ingen ko p\u00e5 isen <\/strong>(there\u2019s no cow on the ice) to express that everything is fine.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Danish has many words other than hygge <\/strong><\/a>that can\u2019t be translated directly into English. A d\u00f8gn<\/strong> [doyn] means \u201dday and night\u201d, while dejlig<\/strong> [dylee] is a kind of mix between \u201dnice\u201d, \u201dpleasant\u201d and \u201dgreat\u201d. Ae<\/strong> means \u201dto stroke\u201d or \u201dcaress\u201d, like when a child is carefully patting a horse.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In Danish, verbs have a passive ending<\/a> in -s<\/strong>, which allows for really compact phrases: Huset males<\/strong> (the house is being painted). Branden slukkes<\/strong> (the fire is being put out).<\/p>\n

What do you<\/em> like about dansk<\/strong>? Feel free to share with the other readers in the comments section.<\/p>\n

BTW, you might get a new blogger soon. As much as I\u2019ve enjoyed writing for this blog, I also feel I\u2019ve reached a point where I have to rehash a lot of ideas. So let\u2019s see, and take care! \ud83d\ude42 Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Since you read this blog last month, a horrible krig [kreey] (war) has broken out in the midst of Europa. Let\u2019s all hope and wish it will end as soon and as peacefully as humanly possible. Verden har brug for fred. (The world needs peace.) And we need to be able to communicate respectfully and…<\/p>\n

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