Danish Questions with "IKKE"/"VEL" and Answers with "JA"/"JO" - When to Use Which? 

Oh, that's good to know. I had French for 3 years back in school, but actually didn't remember that there are two words for yes 🤔

Thank you very much! I am a bit busy at the moment, but I definitely pretend to get back to posting regular videos. Thanks for your nice words 😊

That would be great! I would Like to See and hear more about danish pronunciation.

@@MicsLanguages That'd be so great! Jeg ser frem til det!

Mange tak, David! 😊

That's great to hear, thanks for letting me know!

Thanks for your comment and for your suggestion. I have given it some very brief thoughts, btt for the moment I have too much to do. Maybe at some point in the future... 🙂

Wow, thanks a lot!

Hi Hellen. Good to hear about your interest in Danish. May I ask where you're from? If neither English nor German is your native language, what is your native language then? Thank you for your suggestions for video topics. I don't know if I will ever make videos about these topics. Maybe at some point. Thanks for the idea anyway!

Thank you for responding. Actually, Helen is not my name. I just made a random gmail account and for some reason named it hellenmirrenfan with double L in Hellen. My native language is Slavic(Croatian). I personally think that learning about culture of the people that speak a certain language is helpful. I don’t know much about Denmark, and of some more famous Danes,I know about Andersen and Kierkegaard. I have recently started to look information about Danish films(partly because of my interest in movie posters,partly because I like Danish language). I understand that your channel is mostly focused on grammar and pronunciation and I think that you do a good job at that. If ,at some point, you decide to make videos about Danish culture or customs,I’d be glad to watch them. Do you know of any Danish language RU-vidrs that speak about literature? Also, can you name some Danish films you like?

@@tomislav66 Ah okay I understand about your name. Croatia sounds good. I've been to Croatia once, for two weeks around 15 years ago and I really liked it. I'm sorry I can't recommend any DK youtubers who speak about literature. But let me give you some movies I like. I'll write the Danish names: Festen Blinkende Lygter Hævnen Jagten Adams Æbler Zappa Kongekabale If you end up watching any of them, I'd like to hear your opinion 🙂

have a look here: forvo.com/search/J%C3%B8rgensen/

Good question. Both are correct, and I and probably most other Danes will use both forms, but the short one is a lot more common.

Ja es ist genau das gleiche. Jedoch gibt es doch und jo auch als Modalpartikel. "Das kannst du DOCH nicht machen!" Auf Dänisch benutzt man hier "da": Det kan du DA ikke gøre! Jo als Modalpartikel: "Der har vi JO Peter!" Da haben wir JA Peter

@@MicsLanguages Danke! Mange tak!

Well, they can mean the same in combination with the perfect tense: Jeg har netop/lige spist en is = I've just eaten an ice cream. But they can also mean other things. Netop: precisely/You are right Lige: 1. straight 2. "just" in the meaning quickly / it won't take to long And lige probably has more meanings don't don't come to mind right now.

Mic's Languages tak for hjælpen👍 Jeg ser frem til nye videoer af dig

Hi! It's almost perfect. But in the answers, you need to use gør instead of spiser. Ja/jo, det gør jeg These are the so-called kortsvar (short answers). In a normal "long answer" , you would use spiser: Ja, jeg spiser fisk

Great question! Here, we make it easy: Only one answer: Nej, det gør jeg ikke

@@MicsLanguages Just saw your response (we had a holiday here in Israel, so was away from my computer), mange tak, great video!

Thank you, Priya :)

thank you very much, that's a great compliment!

That could for some be the best choice 🙄

Great to hear you're learning Danish in England. May you get far with it! Ja, det gør jeg: We love to use sentences that start with "det" as an object. English doesn't do that. If I told you something negative that has happened to me, I've been fired or sth. like that, you might say "I'm sorry to hear that", while the normal Danish response would be "Det er jeg ked af at høre". So the object "det" comes first and then we have inversion, i.e. verb and then subject. The sentence form you mentioned is in grammatical terms often called kortsvar. We use this a lot to answer yes- or no- questions: Er du dansker? - Ja, det er jeg. Har du en hund? - Nej, det har jeg ikke. Taler du arabisk? - Nej, det gør jeg ikke. Regner det? - Nej, det gør det ikke. Does this answer your question? 🙂

Ah cool, I didn't know that. I had French for 3 years when I went to school, but for some reason, that idea of oui and si didn't enter my head. Well, those 3 years didn't help me in learning much French anyway. Thanks for your comment! 🙂

Ja and doch in German.

That's a good idea, thank you. It's already on my list. Let me see if I make a video on it some day... 🤔

Exactly!

I'm very happy that you think so. Tusind tak for din kommentar!

Almost. The sentence order is a bit different : Nej, det har hun ikke

Thank you!

As in answering only ja or jo? That's totally alright 🙂

Good question. There are some rules, but they are not always valid. In the case of han/ham, there is a rule: When the A is followed by an M (in the same syllable), it has the sound as in ham. The same is the case when the A is followed by a R, as in far, park, bare. There are several rules there, maybe some day I'll make a video about it...

Mic's Languages Thank you!! I’d been trying to find explanations online but didn’t have much success.

Hi! Great question/suggestion. I doubt I will make a video about it, at least in the near future. So let me try to see if I can help you in writing: In German you have setzen, stellen, legen. In Danish you have sætte, stille, lægge. Thinking about them quickly, it seems to me they are the same. Then you have putte in Danish, where I right now of the bat cannot find a German equivalent. Putte is more about putting something into something. You can for example "putte noget i din taske" or "putte din pung i ned i din lomme". Here, sætte would not work. But lægge would actually work. Putte can also mean to put sth. into a food. Fx "Jeg ved ikke hvad jeg skal putte i maden for at få den til at smage bedre". Here, it is synonymous with komme (which can be used like "kommen" in German, but also as "etwas irgendwo hineingeben"). The 3rd meaning is if you say "jeg skal putte mine børn", which is an abbreviation of "putte mine børn i seng". Schlafen legen. I hope this helps. 😉

@@MicsLanguages It actually really does, thank you very much! I am gonna write this in my little book :) I can't think of a translation for 'putte' in German either (only maybe 'hinein tun' which is very umgangssprachlich). Thank's again so much!

Perfekt!

Thanks a lot. Right now I'm still busy with other things, but I want to get going with the videos again in the somewhat near future...

Hej! Mange tak! I don't know if I'll make a video about that anytime soon, so let me just write a bit here. We have only one sound for these two. It's kind of a "sj" sound, different from many other languages. To hear it pronounced, search for words like sjov or chokolade in den danske ordbog. The ch is often pronounced like a K. For example in my (real) name, Michael. Hope this helps! 😉

Haha, tak Sukhraj 😁 Den er måske ikke direkte "flot", men forhåbentligt hjælper den lidt :)

Hi! Good try. Remember the sentence structure. When making these questions with ikke or vel in the end, we have to have "normal" syntax (SV), not question syntax (VS). So the questions should be like this: Du har spist din morgenmad, ikke? Du vil ikke med, vel? Everything apart from that is correct :) Keep practicing, thanks for your sentences!

@@MicsLanguages tusind tak! :)

Taler is more normal and sounds more "correct". It's not that snakker is wrong though

but watch out, dansk is not with capital "D"

Thanks Mic for your quick response 😀 your videos are really helpful in getting the pronounciations right !!

@@sanjayrpai That's great to hear, thank you Sanjay!

Mic's Languages i hear snakker more in Norwegian

Great to hear, thank you, Sue!

Valeu Mitch! Bom saber que eu posso ser útil. E sim, a situação no Brasil está macabra. Espero que melhore!

Seems like Mic hasn't seem this comment, so I'll give my best answer :) Your guess is correct. The Danish "Jo" when used in this structure will always be understood in what you call the "positive" meaning (I do/I have). Hope it helps

No, it can't 🙁