Danish Practice Lesson: Sit, Lie, Stand 

Thank you, Matthew. Interesting topic for a video. I'll put it on my list :) But quickly, some ideas about the V. I suppose you mean the V in words like "laver", "leve", "tyve". Correct? This sound is normally produced by making a round mouth. More or less like that of a fish. What is the exact difficulty you have?

@@MicsLanguages yes, word like laver. I have been pronouncing it with a silent v until I was corrected by the svigemor. My problem is with the sound combinations of the 'v' plus the vowels, and whether it's the vowel in front or behind that dictates the diphthong noise. Often times the v is pronounced hard and not like a diphthong... I live nearby Skive and that is often pronounced 'ski-ew' and 'ski-ve'.

@@matthewgilshnan1903 Okay thanks for the details. One thing is also that there is a bit of a difference between jysk and "rigsdansk", which I speak. In the case of Skive, in Jylland it would be more frequently pronounced with a hard V, like in the word "ven" (friend), than it would be pronounced like that in for example CPH. I myself would probably always say it with a diphtong. A long "I" and then the "V" with rounded lips. The V is pretty much the same as the vowel U as in Uganda. Both forms are correct for the word Skive, and also for "lave" etc. But the variant with a diphtong would be a lot more common nowadays. I don't know if this helps you with your challenge, but in case it's new information for you, I hope it is useful 🙂

@@MicsLanguages It definitely was helpful. Thank you, Mic for clearing that up for me. I look forward to your up-coming content. Enjoy your day.

Mange tak, og en dejlig dag også til dig!

Thanks for your comment. It's definitely good to add a visual and dynamic aspect to your Anki practice. So whenever you can, it might be a good idea to practice like I showed in the video or in a similar manner. 👍

Hi! As you said, bord is more or less Bo-A, but with a stød on the O. When we have the form bordet, we add a soft D. We still continue having the stød as well. We might add an E sound, too, in the form of a schwa, like the last sound in fx taske ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=taske (so using YOUR terminology, we could say that we add EL) You can hear bordet being pronounced here: forvo.com/search/bordet/da Hope this helps you :)

Thanks, that's an interesting idea. There are a lot of phrasal verbs with med. I'll put it on my list!

Hi! If it were borde (the plural of bord, table) and bore (infinitive, to drill a hole), it would be the same pronunciation. But boret (past tense of bore) has a soft D at the end. If you compare this to bordet (the table), the difference would be that bordet has stød, and boret doesn't. Hope this makes sense 🙂

@@MicsLanguages Hvad der sker, Mic, er, at når du udtaler "bordet", lyder det ikke det samme, som Google Translate siger det (bare dette ord). Mit modersmål er spansk, så jeg lytter til "Pógua". Please Mic, hjælp mig med at vide, hvad den korrekte udtale er, jeg ønsker ikke at starte forkert i denne læring.

@jkeys7182 Nu husker jeg ikke hvordan jeg siger bordet i denne video. Men Google Translate siger det med et meget markant stød. Det kan være derfor at det lyder anderledes end når jeg siger det. Google translate er som regel rigtig god til at udtale dansk. Det er meget sjældent at det siger noget forkert. Du kan godt stole på Google Translate 🙂

@@MicsLanguages Tak Mi, du er et stort bidrag til dem af os, der lærer

@@jkeys7182Tusind tak!! 😀

Yes 🙂