Introduction to the Danish Language 

Moon Moon Omg det er så rigtigt

So true

vi er et simpelt folk XD

yep true that

hahaha - så sandt, jeg så ordet "danish" og trykkede på video, og så sad jeg spændt og lyttede til om det de sagde var sandt hahaha

Sadly true

jamen en eller anden skal jo lære mig vores åndsvage grammatik og det sank aldrig rigtigt ind i skolen 😅

So you' ve scrolled through all 1200+ comments? Geez...😒💩

Somebody has to teach us

De fleste indfødte dansk talere, kan jo ikke tale sproget ordentligt.

Sandsynligvist et program der læser op. Hans stemme ændre sig en smule

@@kristianwede6518 Sounds totally right to me. He pronounced it correctly.

you don't See the mistake?

His "male" was a bit off, pretty sure "malle" was correct though (that said, it is quite rare I talk about fish so yeah there is that :P). That said the disagreement about it here, could easily be due to where in Denmark each of us are from, as that does vary the pronunciations of some words slightly afterall ;)

@Jonas Andersen S7A Sofiendalskolen Udelukker det digital manipulation?

Thank you very much! I'm happy I managed to get the pronunciation right after all the practicing I did!

I dont think that was him

Honestly sounds like someone else saying the words or even a website reading it out

@@Pallepop909 i dunno, that would mean he's lying in this thread. I think maybe the reason it sounds like it's been edited in is maybe that the danish words took a few tries to get right, and so he made those recordings by themselves? Academia can correct me if I'm wrong

Academia Cervena yeah you did it pretty much perfekt

Lige mine ord.

Helt enig

Fordi han er dansker

Ja

@@oliverzp1719 men det er han ikke :)

arma Legend i don’t think that it is him

Scorpion No not all of Them but most

@@Scorpion-jv7pcit could him. His accent indicates that he does come from some where else in Scandinavia.

Yeah its done extremely well

Its a robot, its not him

Han er ikke dansk, han er svensk men det var jo tæt på :)

Jeg troede for at være ærlig også han talte engelsk normalt

Disgust D ja jeg giver dig ret (:

hans accent er ret tyk, man skal ikke kun høre efter udtalelse, men "flow" ;)

also his "er" endings kinda reveal him. Jeg tænker at han sikkert også er øvet i fransk, which would explain why he gets the "throatiness" of Danish so right.

I think the pronounciations are from a Dane. The Danish pronounciations doesn't sound like the commentator.

@@--Arthur The words are definitely spliced in, but that doesn't mean it isn't his voice; he could just have practiced a lot. Pronouncing the words correctly will change your accent, after all, and since they are spliced in, they will always sound different to the rest of the sentences.

Im from Denmark👍🏻

fedt nok

En go lære vil altid søge nye ideer til at undervise. En go lære er vigtig. Uden min matematik lære havde jeg stadig knoklet med 3 tabelen og uden min naturfag lære på EUC havde jeg dumpet istedet for at få 13 i mundtlig fremlæggelse. Så bliv endelig ved med at hente inspiration. Alle børn kan lære, så længe det bliver på måder de kan forstå.

i was born in denmark, yet i still learled a bit from that lol

Alec Fugeson same honestly

Only 1 h in taught. I can understand why you got it wrong though.. It looks wrong.. Thaught looks right because it looks a lot like "thought", which both sounds the same and looks the same in context.

@@rasmusazu Taught and thought do NOT sound the same.

i speak denglish lmao

Well most 'young' people learn English almost at the same time as they learn Danish, so it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone.

@@7Davidnm yeah and it's way more convenient to speak english - EVERYONE understands it

well i speak danish alot and i also was suprised to see anyone speak so great danish

I er bare ikke gode nok til a comprehend my engelsk prowess! xD

i keep on seeing you comment on linguistic videos, its strange

Ilukha I really, really like linguistics. Mostly phonetics, I kinda suck at grammar stuff.

/mi:.aj.ar.ɛl/

@@rzeka cool to see a minor e celeb interested in linguistics, btw do you speak polish/are of polish origin?

Why did you remove in the translation that you're learning Mandarin Chinese? ¿Por qué eliminaste en la traducción que estás aprendiendo chino mandarín?

Du ved godt han er fra danmark ikke?

SebberbutZ i hate when Americans do it they pronounce it with english letter’s sounds

El Patron han er ikke fra danmark

He's apparently Swedish

Correctrix I think they meant choking.

Esben M Altså nogle af ordene var spot on

Immersion from swedish television and norweigan television from back when there were no other channels really helped intelligibility. Nowadays most danes don't watch swedish television and that makes understanding swedish less common.

@@bhmand1669 And Danish pronunciation has drifted further away from Swedish and Norwegian too

Definitely not indistinguishable, but very good pronunciations on most of the words spoken. Immediately recognized his English accent too as most swedes have that "lisping" sound when speaking English. I'm a little surprised that some people actually thought he was danish, but then again the last 10 years have been rough on the spoken danish language and it's very noticeable when speaking to younger people.

Me too lol

BECAUSE PROUD!

I am TO Denmark

+++

@Gimmo Var Her ar det sant??

Thank you! Danish is awesome!

everything would have been good but that soft "D"

As another dane: Our language probably isn't the most beautiful to outsiders, but hey at least we aren't dutch!

@@cpgvonc7568hell it is jeg taler lidt dansk

Jeg føler, at det er tæt på det eneste vi har kørende for os ift. sproget haha

Thank you very much! I have definitely thought about it-they would make perfect additions to the video collection! But as always it's a question of time and priorities :)

@@AcademiaCervena I would love a video on the Faroese language as i am a native speaker

Aksel The Danish he is danish lol

@@waltisbald9468 No he is Swedish

Sure! I bet it works out great for you in Sweden, but to me, I find that english is easier. As he says in the video, it's trickier when danish is involved.

du er vist også dansker

@@zacha_40 Ja, det kan jeg ikke modsige haha

Thank you very much! As far as I've learned (and according to Den danske ordbog), the word 'stød' is not supposed to have stød, unless it's the imperative form of 'støde'.

@@AlfaRomeoQ "Sinde" is an old Danish word that means times. You can see it in the word "nogensinde" which means " at any time (ever)". 50= halvtreds = (halvtredsindstyve - old Danish) = halv tredje (2½) sinde tyve (half tree (2½) times twenty ). 60= tres= tre sinde tyve (three times twenty) 70= halvfjerds= halvfjerde sinde tyve (half four (3½) times twenty 80= firs= fire sinde tyve = (four times twenty) 90= halvfems= halvfem sinde tyve= (half five (4½) times twenty ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=halvtreds

Yeah, most of the higher numbers are based on multiplying by 20 and isn't really easy to grasp when not used to it.

@@AlfaRomeoQ There is honestly no need to learn why 50 is called halvtres in Danish. Danish children don't learn the numbers are the way they are, they just learn how to say 50, 60, 70 and so on.

@@AlfaRomeoQ Yeah, I get that. In that regard a language like Spanish, Swedish or English is much easier, because there is a system to the names of numbers.

@@AlfaRomeoQ this is what happens when you borrow stuff from the french! Complete rubbish of a numbersystem. It always bothered me when learning other numbersystems, why my own one was so stupidly put together in comparison.

Kamelååååså! :D

I have, yes. It would fit quite well with the other languages I've done introductions on :) But we'll have to see what time allows me!

Din kommentar har puggat upp mig! Jag lär mig svenska och har alltid haft ett stort intresse av de nordiska språken eftersom jag har läst massor böcker av nordiska författare, huvudsakligen på spanska och engelska, och mina bäste vänner är från Sverige. Nu vill jag läsa deras verk på originalspråket. Det är sorgligt när jag ser att nordbor använder engelska för att tala med varandra. Det är alltså alltid uppmuntrande att höra att svenskarna lär sig andra nordiska språk.

Christoffer Olsson How many dislects are there in Sweden?

​@@eduardobraivein8496 It's an interesting question and I think the answer is a rather boring "it depends on what you define as a dialect". I can very easily distinguish between several Gothenburgian dialects; there's one on the Hisingen island, one eastern and one south-western, and a rather new one that's spoken mostly in the northern parts that's heavily influenced by a higher degree of recent immigrants from Middle Eastern countries (and it's a proper dialect, mind you; the speakers have Swedish as their native language). Assuming this pattern is fairly accurate for any part of Sweden, there should be hundreds, if not thousands, of dialects. But here's the thing, no one in any other part of Sweden can distinguish between them without training, maybe apart from the northern dialect. And if a general native speaker of Swedish can't distinguish it as a dialect, is it one? I can't distinguish between different dialects of Stockholm or between Östersund and Sundsvall, but to them, it's almost insulting if you get it wrong because it's so self-evident in their eyes. By that definition, there are tens, maybe hundreds of dialects that any Swede can discern. I wouldn't be surprised if this is a general pattern throughout all of human language, so I think you can expect it to have the same degree of granularity as the many dialects in the region of which you live yourself.

Christoffer Olsson Thanks Christoffer. I wouldn't know what to answer as regards: 1) What really defines a dialect? and 2) How many ones are there where I live. I live in Israel (not my native country) and all I can say is that there are mainly two variations of Hebrew: a) That spoken by Sephardic Jews (originally from Spain and Portugal; the term also includes the ones from Turkey and Middle Eastern countries) and b) that spoken by Ashkenazi Jews (from Central Europe). The main differences are pronunciation (more guttural in the former, clearer in the latter), word stress and intonation (and, to a lesser extent, vocabulary). Other than this, there aren't any other differences which prevent members of either ethnic background to communicate with one another.

​@Anders Houmøller Eliasen This reminds me of a fascinating phenomenon from when I was fairly new to Danish (having learned it only from Greenlanders and my girlfriend from Falster). Being generally interested in linguistics, I obviously asked about different Danish dialects and I was presented different videos of people speaking dialects that native Danish speakers could barely understand, of course followed by jolly comments about how hopeless it is to understand them. But to my untrained ear, I couldn't even hear the difference between "regular" Danish and the extreme dialects. I haven't tried since, but it would certainly be interesting if learning Danish better resulted in me understanding Danish worse. :D

Danskar i danmark kineser i kina

@@svenskafanan421 that's a very unfortunate opinion friend. Remember that although the immigration debate in the media is largely dominated by coverage of two groups (namely criminal immigrants behaving in a way that benefits no one but themselves (NOBODY likes these) and ultra-leftists refusing to acknowledge the existence of the first group (many people don't like these either)) there is a huge group of people that aren't being talked about which are simply nice, normal people who are hardworking and kind and contribute to society just like the rest of us except that they look a little different, may talk with an accent and have certain cultural habits which are of no harm to you or anyone else in any way. Comments like yours have no beneficial value as it won't change the bad immigrants for the better nor will it make the good ones feel welcome. It purely serves to make good people feel like unwelcome outcasts for no reason, which only worsens the situation. In essence that kind of comment serves the exact same purpose as the actions of the criminal immigrants on which I assume you base your opinion of everyone who looks marginally different from yourself or was born somewhere else aka. 99% of the world's population.

Well that depends on dialect really, and it is meant to show formal Danish, which is also what is taught to foreigners. I think it's entirely fair.

That REALLY depends on who you're speaking with. I, for one, always pronounce the entirety of both words.

Ku' and blir' is more slang that a lot of us young people say.

@@emilieholmberg1581 Slang is like "blæret" or "flække en pizza", ku' and blir', including ka', is also said by most adults who speak a copenhagen dialect.

@@omega1231 Not just copenhagen. Most places don't pronounce the entirety of those words

Thank you very much! I honestly didn't think about the numbers, but you're right in that they definitely could've deserved a mention! I didn't even know Danish had forms like 'femti' and 'syvti', but den danske ordbog has just proved me wrong. Are there people who actually use those forms in normal speech?

@@AcademiaCervena No, the Scandinavian numerals are never used in speech but it is compulsory to use them when writing cheques. However, since cheques have almost died out by now, these numerals will probably be unknown to the generation growing up now. The Scandinavian numerals were also used on banknotes from 1952 to 2009. The 50 crown note used to read "femti kroner" but now it's "halvtreds kroner". When I (Dane) was in school, we learnt these numerals in order to be able to write cheques one day, and we were also instructed to use them whenever we spoke to a Swede or a Norwegian. I still switch to them automatically when doing that. I remember buying something on the Copenhagen-Oslo ferry once, and the Norwegian I was talking to had to repeat the price twice before it dawned on me that he was using Danish numerals. Since they were completely out of context there, they were quite incomprehensible to me...

@@troelspeterroland6998 yes, I also have only heard of it in relation to writing cheques.

@@AcademiaCervena Those forms aren't used at all in modern Danish. You may find them used in old literature, but everyone nowadays uses the inverse ordering.

This is getting interesting. Ordbog over det Danske sprog says that the Scandinavians numerals existed in Older Modern Danish (1500-1700), but also says that they were reintroduced in modern Danish at some point because of Norwegian influence, so apparently they were gone for a while. They apparently existed side by side with the others for centuries before that. Obviously, tred(i)ve (30) and fyrre (40) are actually forms of treti and firti with weakened stops and vowels (and tred(i)ve added -ve because of influence from tyve (20). Also, the older form fyrretyve (40) apparently added -tyve because of influence from halvtredsindstyve (50) etc.) Moths Ordbog from approx. 1700 has firti, femti, seksti and niti, and Kalkars Ordbog from 1881 which covers Danish from 1300 to 1700 has Treti, Fireti, Femti, Sexti, Syvti, Otti and Niti. It seems that the postal service introduced the Scandinavian numerals on postal orders and bills of exchange in 1886, if not earlier. And Ordbog over det danske Sprog has femti, seksti, syvti (with a preserved, rather un-Norwegian pronunciation ['sødi]), otti and niti in several quotes from literature in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. It's mostly poetry and works by Scandinavistic philologists, though. I could add that since the Scandinavian numerals are well known to the cheque-writing generations, they can still be used in everyday poetry like home-made birthday songs if they happen to fit the melody better than a Danish numeral would have done. It's interesting, by the way, that they were introduced on banknotes four years after å was introduced. There was a Scandinavistic trend after the war. Oh, and as for other languages, Sønderjysk once had the numerals søstig (60) and søvventig (70) - and maybe others - that were borrowed form Low German. All North Frisian numerals above 20 are also borrowed from Low German. Faroese mostly uses numerals that are exact calques of the Danish ones (although there are attempts to (re)introduce the others). I wonder how long they have been around because the pronunciation of fírs (80) as ['fʊʂ] seems to indicate that they were introduced before old í turned into [ʊ(j)] which is what? - at least 400 years ago? Funny that the numerals made it there and not into Norwegian.

I thought it was 'huset' that was 'æ hus' in Jutish? Or is it both?

Haha never thougt about that! Well i guess it could be both. Dont take my word for it. But i Think its safe to say that either Way it Can use “æ hus”

“The House” is like “æ hus” I Got a fun riddle for you;) Ar er å æ ø, i æ å Jeg er på øen, i åen Im on a Island, In the river

Thank you for that! In Sweden there is a similar one: Å i åa ä e ö, meaning 'and in the river there is an island'.