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  Overview of the Danish Language to Help You Learn Danish
The Danish language (Dansk) is the official language of the Kingdom of Denmark, as well as Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
Danish began to separate from the other Scandinavian languages about 1000 A.D., and it is clearly the language that has diverged the furthest from Old Norse-- the ancestor of the modern Scandinavian languages.
Danish speakers use polite pronouns of address (De and Dem) in the second person singular that are identical with the third person plural forms (de and dem).
www.transparent.com /languagepages/danish/overview.htm   (653 words)

  
  Danish language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Danish also holds official status and is a mandatory subject in school in the former Danish colonies of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, that now enjoy limited autonomy.
Danish is the official language of Denmark, one of two official languages of Greenland (the other is Greenlandic), and one of two official languages of the Faeroes (the other is Faeroese).
Danish numerals from 50 to 90 are based on a vigesimal system similar to that of French not shared with the other Scandinavian languages.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danish_language   (2387 words)

  
 Danish grammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Danish grammar is either the study of grammar in the Danish language, or the grammatical system itself in the Danish language.
There are no case declinations in Danish nouns, except the genitive(ejefald), which is normally applied as an -s ending, or simply with an apostrophe when the noun ends with an s already.
The numbers from one to twenty in Danish are: en, to, tre, fire, fem, seks, syv, otte, ni, ti, elleve, tolv, tretten, fjorten, femten, seksten, sytten, atten, nitten and tyve.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Danish_grammar   (1380 words)

  
 Paradigm, No. 2 (March, 1990)
Christian III had a Danish church ordinance drafted in Latin which was sent to Wittenberg for Luther’s approval, and with a few amendments, a Danish translation was ratified as law in 1539 by the approximate equivalent of parliament.
Grammars were not merely tools to give pupils the command of a language, but were also seen as attempts at correct descriptions of language itself, and therefore also of the structure of the world reflected in the structure of language.
Although Melanchthon had not meant his grammar to be a statement about the nature of language, the structure which underlaid it reflected a definite view of language which he had inherited from a millennium of grammarians before him.
w4.ed.uiuc.edu /faculty/westbury/Paradigm/jensen1.html   (3826 words)

  
 Learn to speak Danish
Danish is not a hard language to learn or speak, it only has one problem, you still have to look around finding someone who speaks it.
Danish is the official language of Denmark, Greenland and the Faeroe Islands.
Danish is a language of the Indo-European family, and it belongs to the North Germanic group together with Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian and Swedish.
www.dkheadlines.com /learndanish.htm   (2258 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Danish language (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia
Danish language, member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
The spelling and pronunciation of the language began to be standardized c.1700, and a modern standard Danish can be said to have existed since about 1800, although there are still a number of dialects.
Although the vocabulary of Danish is substantially native, many words have been borrowed from other languages, notably from Low German in the 14th to 16th cent.; from High German, Latin, and French in the 16th to 19th cent.; and from English since the late 19th cent.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/Danishla.html   (484 words)

  
 Danish language on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
DANISH LANGUAGE [Danish language] member of the North Germanic, or Scandinavian, group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages.
For example, when used in the nonneuter øre means "coin," whereas used in the neuter øre means "ear." Homonyms may also be differentiated in Danish by the use of a stød, or glottal stop, which is a sound that results from the closing and opening of the glottis to expel air.
Rescue and Cultural Context During the Holocaust: Grundtvigian Nationalism and the Rescue of the Danish Jews.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/danishla.asp   (722 words)

  
 Faculty of Humanities - Courses in the Department of German and Nordic languages
Danish pronunciation, theory and exercises in the language laboratory of the faculty.
Danish and Norwegian realistic and naturalist literature from the period 1870-1900 will be read and analysed in a literary and social light.
Self-directed studies in Danish is a learner-centred Danish course where the learner is in charge of all of the main aspects of the learning process such as objectives, strategies, selection of resources and evaluation.
www.hi.is /prog/catalogue/german.html   (6724 words)

  
 Yamada Language Center: Danish Language Web guide
Danish is taught at the University of Oregon by the Department of German and Scandinavian.
Dansk OSS A FAQ for Danes abroad - in Danish.
Dansk for turister - Danish for tourists (by travlang.com)
babel.uoregon.edu /yamada/guides/danish.html   (84 words)

  
 Danish
It is thought that Danish started to split from the ancestral Old Norse some time in the 13th century.
Danish grammar is similar to the grammar of other Germanic languages, including English.
Danish is considered to be a Category I language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/december/Danish.html   (874 words)

  
 Routledge
Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Danish Grammar.
The Grammar is the ideal reference source for the learner and user of Danish, irrespective of level.
Throughout, the emphasis is on Danish as used by present-day native speakers of the language.
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 Scandinavian Studies (University of Alberta): 2001-2002 Course Offerings
DANSK 111 and 112 Beginners’ Danish I and II DANSK 111 is offered in the first term; DANSK 112 is offered in the second term.
Danish will be used to the greatest possible extent in the classroom; the midterms and the final exams will all contain an oral component.
First, pronunciations, orthographies and grammars of Norwegian bokmål, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk, in that order, will be examined, illustrated by texts and by speakers of these languages.
www.arts.ualberta.ca /~scand/courses.htm   (2170 words)

  
 Ny side 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Colloquial Danish is a practical course in everyday written and spoken Danish requiring no prior knowledge of the language.
The texts are written in a simple and easily understandable Danish, and are aimed at people with another language than Danish as their native language.
Danish for ducklings is a multi media language programme aimed at adults wanting to learn Danish.
www.dancult.demon.co.uk /danish_materials.htm   (1068 words)

  
 Danish - Language Directory
Danish is spoken by more than 5 million people.
The closest relatives of Danish are the North Germanic languages of Scandinavia:
In addition, there is a small community of Danish speakers in the portion of Germany bordering Denmark.
language-directory.50webs.com /languages/danish.htm   (395 words)

  
 Roskilde Universitetscenter - Study Guidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The aim of the course is to develop the student's ability to adapt Danish texts for an English-speaking audience, and, either, to adapt English texts for a Danish audience, or, to adapt English texts for a different English-speaking audience.
In Denmark, BE refers to standard British English grammar and vocabulary, and an accent variety close enough to Received Pronunciation to serve as a potential model for teaching in Danish schools.
Though the candidate is generally comprehensible, fluency suffers from recurrent deficiencies and errors of grammar and lexis, in the expression of complex ideas, or when colloquial language is required.
www.ruc.dk /isok/Fag/engelsk/engelsk-u/studgu99?print=1   (10286 words)

  
 Learning Danish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Learning Danish is not difficult, but some care must be taken with its spoken form.
Danish grammar is similar to English in many ways and not too difficult, but Danish has a looseness in it's pronunciation that can be a little hard to grasp for a native English speaker.
Compact makes a very good introduction to Danish or a good audio supplement for its conversation and pronunciation work, but a more comprehensive method is needed to go beyond the first steps in the language.
www.language-learning-advisor.com /learning-danish.html   (520 words)

  
 Roskilde Universitetscenter - Research Group 3
Functional Grammar and Pragmatics is the name of a research group and research activities involved in the PhD programme Linguistic Studies at the Department of Language and Culture, Roskilde University.
A basic assumption in functional grammar and functional pragmatics is the view that grammar and pragmatics are complementary approaches which cannot be separated.
For a functional grammar, the structure of language and of individual languages reflects the communicative and cognitive needs of human beings.
www.ruc.dk /isok_en/research_groups/research_group_3?print=1   (489 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars): Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Danish Grammar.
The Grammar is the ideal reference source for the learner and user of Danish, irrespective of level.
Throughout, the emphasis is on Danish as used by present-day native speakers of the language.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415082064   (773 words)

  
 HotBot Web Search for danish
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 Annotation guide for the Danish Dependency Treebank
In our analyses of linguistic phenomena in Danish, we try to state references from the linguistic literature if the reference has directly influenced our analysis, or if the phenomenon is controversial and the reference has a particularly insightful analysis of it.
However, many analyses in linguistics have been absorbed into linguistic "folklore", where it is no longer possible for non-historians to trace the ideas back to their origin and assign proper credit for them, or mention all the linguists who have discussed the phenomenon in the past.
The Danish Dependency Treebank currently consists of 474 Parole texts, consisting of 5.540 sentences, 100.200 words, or 34.4% of the morphosyntactically annotated part of the Danish Parole corpus.
www.id.cbs.dk /~mtk/treebank/guideT.html   (1003 words)

  
 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2001035089
The concept of possession in Danish grammar 41 Ole Togeby 3.
Datives and comitatives as neighbouring spouses The case of indirect objects and comitatives in Danish 115 Lars Heltoft 8.
Kinship in grammar 201 Osten Dahl and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm 12.
www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy022/2001035089.html   (250 words)

  
 VISL - Constraint Grammar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Constraint Grammar concept was launched by Fred Karlsson in the early 90'ies (Karlsson et.al.1995), and CG parsers have since been written for a large variety of languages, routinely achieving F-scores for PoS (word class) of over 99%.
VISL's own Constraint Grammar systems are inspired by Eckhard Bick's PALAVRAS parser for Portuguese (Bick 2000), and use, as a novelty, subclause function, generalized dependency markers and semantic prototype tags.
Linguist-written, context dependent rules are compiled into a grammar that assigns grammatical tags ("readings") to words or other tokens in running text.
visl.sdu.dk /constraint_grammar.html   (463 words)

  
 Scandinavian Language
A section on the history of the Scandinavian languages is followed by chapters on the pronunciation and grammar of Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian and a classified vocabulary list of the three languages.
The texts include exercises, which are keyed to the grammar section.
A historical introduction and selections from Old Norse literature are followed by notes, a grammar section, and an Old Norse-English glossary.
www.library.uiuc.edu /mdx/bibliogs/Scandinavian/scandlanggen.htm   (687 words)

  
 DANISH GRAMMAR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In Danish, the pattern is much simpler; I is, you is, he is, they is.
To transform Danish words into the...(this), the...(that), the 'the' is glued to the end of a word.
Yes, Danish has a lot of words which are spelled the same way, but not necessarily pronounced the same.
www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?TID=3865   (1727 words)

  
 Scandinavian Studies Web: Literature
Danish Grammar (by John Madsen) - an excellent online guide ranging from pronunciation to idioms, with links to further Danish grammars and dictionaries.
Mimír: Icelandic Grammar Notebook (by John Tebbutt) - a hypertext-based tool which allows the user to search and reference Icelandic grammar, including hyperlink examples between sections.
Danish Author Profiles on the Internet (Kulturnet/Danish Literature Information Centre and several other sponsors) - the "first bilingual introduction to Danish authors on the Internet" currently features 19 Danish authors.
www.lib.byu.edu /estu/wess/scan/nordlit.html   (1076 words)

  
 Site of the Month - Babel Babble - UniLang
The Danish Grammar website by John Madsen is an extensive work.
The grammar has an interesting feature: advanced explanations are in a diferent font colour from the main text.
All in all, it is a good grammar reference which Danish students should read carefully and look up whenever necessary.
home.unilang.org /bb/index.php?n=4&t=8   (217 words)

  
 VISL
Bick, Eckhard & Uibo, Heli & Müürisep, Kaili (2005-3), Arborest - a VISL-Style Treebank Derived from an Estonian Constraint Grammar Corpus, In: Kübler, Sandra et.al.
Bick, Eckhard (2003-7), Arboretum, a Hybrid Treebank for Danish, in: Joakim Nivre & Erhard Hinrich (eds.), Proceedings of TLT 2003 (2nd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theory, Växjö, November 14-15, 2003), pp.9-20.
Bick, Eckhard (1997-2), Dependensstrukturer i Constraint Grammar Syntaks for Portugisisk, in: Brøndsted, Tom & Lytje, Inger (eds), Sprog og Multimedier, pp.
beta.visl.sdu.dk /Artikeloversigt.html?visl-language=lv   (1089 words)

  
 BigRedGarage.com - Learn to Speak Danish with Pimsleur Danish Language Courses
It is spoken by over 5 million people, most of whom live in Denmark; however there are some Danish speakers in Greenland, the Faeroe Islands, Iceland, and the United States.
Although the vocabulary of Danish is substantially native, many words have been borrowed from other lanugages, notably from Low German in the 14th to 16th century; from High German, Latin and French in the 16th to 19th century; and from English since the late 19th century.
Of the several unique features of the Method, two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory that he called Graduated Interval Recall This is the only language teaching program which incorporates these essential principles to provide you with the most easy–to–do, amazingly rapid, and highly cost–effective learning method available.
www.bigredgarage.com /danish.htm   (298 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars): Books: Robin Allan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
If you want to understand the language of Danish -- and Danes are sticklers for grammar, both Danish and English -- then you must have this book or a Danish nun as a teacher.
It would be difficult to imagine a more complete work on descriptive, Danish grammar, or any grammar, for that matter.
Most Danes I have met cannot explain their own language's grammar rules, and also admit to not knowing or using proper grammar as well as they should.
www.amazon.com /Danish-Comprehensive-Grammar-Routledge-Grammars/dp/0415082064   (1044 words)

  
 WannaLearn: Learn Danish
Danish Grammar - a text-only guide to Danish grammar, covering articles, substantives, adjectives, numerals, pronouns, verbs, irregular verbs, auxiliary verbs, participles, infinitive, subjunctive, passive voice, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, imperative, formal subjects, questions and answers, word order, position of small adverbs, construction of sentences and basic pronunciation
Danish Grammar in English - a short course on Danish grammar, covering nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, pronouns, numerals and the units of time, prepositions and conjunctions, syntax and sentence structure, danish pronunciation, useful everyday expressionsand more
BUY IT Danish: Pimsleur Language Program - A highly effective, bookless course on speaking Danish, developed by renowned memory expert, Dr. Paul Pimsleur.
www.wannalearn.com /Academic_Subjects/World_Languages/Danish   (446 words)

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