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Well, to make sure that the next post on this forum isn't when we wish each other a Good Easter, here's a nice saying for these Omicron times: "Når man er frisk har man mange ønsker, men når man er syk har man bare ett ønske". Even though I heard and said this several times when I lived in...

God/glædelig/gleðileg jul/jól to everybody! But have you ever wondered why e.g. Norwegians wish each other a "good Christmas" but native speakers of English don't? Well, it may be partly because teachers tell pupils in British schools to avoid the word "good" if possible when they write essays...

Sorry - I only have the phrase in the English translation of a Danish book, but I presume it is a common Danish saying. Apparently it is used in an expression of poverty, but I was wondering what degree of poverty was being claimed. The sentence is: There is nothing like being young and in...

I've got so used to the common Norwegian expression 'arbeide/jobbe med' that my Norwenglish brain can't always decide whether you actually can translate this as 'work with' in some cases (I think Danish 'arbejde med' and Swedish 'arbeta/jobba med' are used in the same way). Sometimes it's...

Sounds good, doesn’t it? No more difficulties! But unfortunately it’s not so simple - now you have to rise to the occasion, because all your “vanskeligheter” have become “utfordringer”! The n-graphs for both Norwegian and English show a very clear picture. “Challenges” has replaced...

In Andre Bjerke's De dødes tjern, on a couple of occasions, heterosexual men refer to each other as "kjære deg". For example: "Du har sikkert hørt tale om noe som heter magi. Eller har du ikke det?" "Kjære deg, jeg har jo middelskoleexamen." Was this a normal thing for men to say to each...

I wonder if you (Scandinavians or non-Scandinavians) have ever been in a situation where you didn't understand one word (that's what the title means, roughly) when you heard other people speaking (a dialect of) your own language. Norwegian is supposed to be difficult because of all the dialects...

Is the word mord used at all in Danish and Norwegian (b/n), since I rarely heard mord but just drab. Is the word drab or its descendent used in Swedish since so far as I know only mord is used there.

Hi, guys In the fourth episode of the TV series "Forhoeret", there is this excerpt: "Hvor er Rylander? Han lagde altid en god presball. Hvor er han henne?" What does "presball" mean in this passage? From the context, it is a person who is good at exerting pressure. Am I right?

Hi, guys Does "klatmaleri" means daub, a badly painted picture?

If I write the surname Hansen in Danish, would /a/ be pronounced the same if I write the surname Hansen as Hænsen. If not what is the difference in quality between /a/ and /æ/ in Standard Danish.

I have seen both. Is there any difference?

Jeg hadde lest et sted at 'mange dansker' uttaler 'læge' og 'lærer' likt, og så fant jeg følgende på sproget.dk - vel å merke fra 1985! "Hos de fleste danskere under 35 er ordene lærer, lærere og læger faldet helt sammen i udtalen. Det har ikke spor med sjusk at gøre, for det er en generel...

Do these sentences sound ok to you? Or the equivalent sentences in Danish and Swedish? (From Utdanningsnytt): Men i 1997 brøt borgerkrigen ut og bidro til store ødeleggelser i landet (From Årsrapport, Røde Kors): Syklonene Idai og Kenneth bidro til store ødeleggelser langs kysten i Mosambik...

Ifølge Den Danske Ordbog skal det være stød i entall prins. prins — Den Danske Ordbog Faller stødet bort i flertall prinser, eller blir det stående?

Have you noticed that the usual words for 'boy' and 'girl' are completely different in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic (I think) and German? Whereas the words for 'man' and 'woman' show much more similarity between the languages, as do the words for various everyday things such as 'house'...

It says in the DDO that "personale" means "(samtlige) ansatte på en arbejdsplads" and it is used "især i singularis", so grammatically I cannot say "*Der kommer fem personaler." But anyway I want to convey the meaning. What is the word for a number of persons of a "personale"? The similar for...

Topic: er ikke altid til at afgøre om... Copied from title. Cagey, moderator I have seen this phrase somewhere, but don't know the meaning precisely.

"små" is often used before a number, such as in "små tre år", "små to uger".

When it comes to referring to the people of a nation in general, both the definite and the indefinite forms are found, even it is non-specific in its context, for example, "Tyskerne er Danmarks klart største turistgruppe." but also "Tyskere vil holde jul i sommerhuse". In both of the sentences...

Take "Jeg gad nok vide" for example. Should I use it to express something I would like to know but didn't get to know? or something I have expected? or something I have tried to guess but the thing doesn't develop as I have expected? and should it be followed by a clause or only a noun phrase?

I often hear people say "Hvis det er" in the end of their expression, but I am not really sure about what they exactly mean by this phrase, since there is no following content. The expression seems like "Du kan XXX, hvis det er.". I also hear people sy "Hvis det er tilfældet, så..." as a kind...

Det skal være nødsluser i alle rom nød=emergency What does sluser mean? Thank you

Rottene reiste seg på bakbeina og trippet mot dem. What does trippe mean here? Takk

"Det store røde og knudrete arret i Alberts ansikt" What does knudret mean? Thank you

Hello, Two uneducated and quite evil characters want to steal something. The hero of the story says it's a toy, but they know it's not true. "it doesn't look like a toy", say A. He turns to his evil companion and says "Gjør'n vel?" What does it mean? Thank you

Hello everybody! I am using the book På vej til dansk. At p. 9 i saw the phrase på -brogade but I cannot check it up on Den Danske Ordbog. Is it a typo or a foreign phrase? Thank you very much in advance! Best,

Hello everybody: I would like to know the meaning of this expression. Context: Med tiden kom hun til bredden af et vandløb med en overflade, der var så blank af stjerneskær, at det så ud, som om nogen havde pillet skrællen af månen, som et stykke frugt, og lagt den i et strålende bånd på...

Hello, with a couple of friends, we're trying to establish a list of expressions that name in respective linguistic communities the current security hygienic "dispositifs". It's pretty evident that the use is rather arbitrary and "improper" from the point of view of the internal sens of the...

According to this #Sprogbrug: Hverdag eller hver dag? “Hverdag” er 5 dage om ugen, mandag til fredag. “Hver dag” er 7 dage om ugen. There is a space's difference, but they are pronounced the same, or maybe only nuanced different. How should I distinguish the two expressions that the other side...

Hej allesammen Jeg har fundet regler om, hvornår "for at" eller "til at" skal bruges, men jeg har endnu ikke fundet regler om, situationer hvor man skriver hverken af dem. For eksempel: "Der er mange, der har det svært med at finde et sted at bo" "Jeg har noget at give dig" Jeg kan godt høre...

I am wondering if anyone on this forum could teach me how to pronounce the Danish first name "Laerke" correctly. I have browsed the Internet but have not been able to find a good resource.

In a Danish newspaper I read: I bilen med de to kvinder bliver hende, der sidder på passagersædet, erklæret død på stedet. Why is 'hende' used instead of 'hun'. It should be the subject of the verb 'bliver'. Or is 'hende' used to emphasize?

Do "deltager" (participant) and "deltager" as a verb have different pronunciation? Other example is like "modtager".

I know these two languages (at least bokmål) are quite close, however there are subtle differences, false friends, differences in word order and grammar. I have been looking for a book or resource about this but so far without success. Politikens forlag published some years ago...

Hi! I have a problem in pronouncing these words: kvinde/minde and milde, with my mouth and they all sound the same to my ears From what I got from the dictionary: Udtale — ordnet.dk That "e" in the word "kvinde": ˈkvenə and the word "minde": ˈmenə sounds like "i" in the word "milde": ˈˈmilə...

A man /priest/ is introducing a newcomer to his new home: "Ja og det er vores lille kirke. Nu skal du næsten lige se denne her også. Det er vores æbletræ. Og det er vi rigtig stolte af." I wonder if you can translatate this like: "You have to see this right now." or "You have to see this...

Doktor in the hospital: Moderen, hun døde, da hun skulle føde ham. Ja her inde på stuen ved siden af. Is it "in this room, on the neighbouring table" or "in the neighbouring room?"

In the movie Adams Æbler. Gunnar: Jeg hjælper Sarah med at omskrive en artikel Ivan: Nå, om hvad? Gunnar: Om tigrene i Østen, det er grebet helt forkert an. Prøv at se Ivan. Prøv at se hvordan de skriver, at der kun er 400 tilbage. Ivan: Ja skønt. Gunnar: Ja det er jo fuldstændig vanvittigt. De...

In the movie Adams Æbler. Pastor Ivan Fjelsted wants only to see good things in life, he does not see evil. A former alcoholic and a man fom the Middle East (Khalid) who robs gas stations stay with him. Now a neonazi released from prison comes to stay with them. Ivan introduces them. Khalid...

In the movie Adams Æbler. Neo-nazi Adam who has been in prison and now must stay three months with pastor Ivan Fjelsted, who is a bit strange. Adam it talking to doctor Kolberg who knows Ivan well. Doktor Kolberg: Hvad sagde pastor Fjeldsted til det der? Adam: Han er sgu´da en lallende idiot...

Hi, In the book "Jeg er f*cking hot" by Renée Toft Somonsen I read: "Faktisk får det indre barn så meget plads, at jeg indimellem får de vildeste skygger på hende, i så høj grad, at mit overjeg nogle gange siger grimme ting om hende." Can someone tell me what it means to get "de vildeste...

Hello, I have problems understanding this expression "Det slår langt fra til" and I'm not sure I got it right. Here are a few examples: De penge, Odense Kommune har fået til at tage imod ekstra flygtninge, slår langt fra til. Sådan siger socialrådmand Steen Møller (K), der vil have regnet på...

Hi, Could you teach me the correct pronunciation of the name "Togeby"? If possible, please add the phonetic transcription in IPA.

The essential is the difference of "lunt" with the other two.

the "t" in the stem of the two words is silent. So how to say "restauranter" and "pointet"?

Consider the following sentence: The islands of Funen and Zealand are separated by the Great Belt strait. Which of the following options (if either) would the Scandinavian languages prefer for translating the highlighted phrase? 1) Storebælt strædet (da) / Storebælt sundet (no) / Stora Bält...

i.e. 10,000 to 99,999

What does "skoletid" include? Can I use it to refer to my university life?

Hej allesammen, I'm a beginner in Danish, so forgive this simple question. To me, when æ/a/e are pronounced when reciting the alphabet, they sound extremely close to one another. So, when spelling out loud a word or a name containing æ, a or e, does the listener immediately understand which one...