{"id":977,"date":"2013-08-31T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T23:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/?p=977"},"modified":"2013-09-01T01:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T01:11:26","slug":"hello-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/danish\/2013\/08\/31\/hello-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Houses!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sea Gleam and The Pearl \u2013 two houses next to the Guden\u00e5en river.<\/p><\/div>\n

Danes love their hus\/e<\/b> (houses). According to Patrick Kingsley\"htbd\"<\/a>, author of \u201dHow to be Danish\u201d, Danes have the second-largest houses in Europe. (I wonder where the largest houses are\u2026) I have never been in another country where people spend so much time fixing every little detail of their hjem<\/b> [yem] (home) and turning every stone in their have<\/b> (garden)\u2026 This obsession is so great that many Danes leave their everyday house in order to spend their summer holiday in a kolonihavehus<\/b><\/a> \u2013 which is essentially just a smaller house in a special kind of \u201dgarden village\u201d.<\/p>\n

No wonder, then, that some houses in Denmark even have names<\/i>! I spent some of my first years living in a house called H\u00f8jbo<\/b>. Et bo<\/b> is another word for et hjem<\/b> (it\u2019s related to at bo<\/b> = to live, to stay). H\u00f8jbo<\/b>, accordingly, means \u201dHigh home\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mens jeg boede d\u00e9r<\/b> (while I was living there), my grandmother lived in a house with the name Bohus<\/b>. You could translate that as \u201dLiving-house\u201d or \u201dHouse to live in\u201d.<\/p>\n

If you engage in the very Danish activity of taking a stroll (g\u00e5 en tur<\/b>) in a typical villakvarter<\/b> (residential neighboorhood), there is a certain chance you\u2019ll spot a husnavn <\/b>[HOOSnown] (house name) or two containing the \u201dbo<\/b>\u201d word. Antother frequent element is \u201dminde<\/b>\u201d (memory) as in Thomasminde<\/b>, meaning \u201din memory of Thomas\u201d. The name is usually written with large metal bogstaver<\/b> (letters) attached to the front wall of the house.<\/p>\n

Some visitors to Denmark, especially those from countries with a warmer climate, wonder where all the Danes are hiding themselves\u2026 Outside of the larger cities, caf\u00e9s and restaurants tend to be quite empty on ordinary working days\u2026 There are hardly any children in the streets. Don\u2019t worry \u2013 sooner or later the Danes will appear. It\u2019s just that they\u2019re very busy lighting candles and watering flowers and talking to their cats while watching the clouds gather on the outside skies\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Danes love their hus\/e (houses). According to Patrick Kingsley, author of \u201dHow to be Danish\u201d, Danes have the second-largest houses in Europe. (I wonder where the largest houses are\u2026) I have never been in another country where people spend so much time fixing every little detail of their hjem [yem] (home) and turning every stone…<\/p>\n

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