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There are three forms of the adjective in Danish: basic form or common, used with singular words of the common gender ("n-words"). en billig bog, "a cheap book"; en stor dreng, "a big boy" t-form or neuter, used with singular words of the neuter gender ("t-words") and as an adverb. et billigt tæppe, "a cheap carpet"; et stort hus, "a big house"
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For example, the phrases kongen af Danmarks bolsjefabrik "the king of Denmark's candy factory", where the factory is owned by the king of Denmark, or det er pigen Uffe bor sammen meds datter "that is the daughter of the girl that Uffe lives with", where the enclitic attaches to a stranded preposition. [85] [86]
Danglish words often receive standard Danish endings and prefixes; in other words, they are conjugated or declined in the same manner as Danish words. The following are examples of sentences featuring Danified English words; the correct terms in Danish are also included as well:
husband, “hus” is house in Danish, “bonde” is a type of farmer in Danish. Source: Kasper; egg, "æg" English words of Norwegian origin.
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Conversely, Danish has a greater tendency to preserve loan words' original spellings. In particular, a c that represents /s/ is almost never normalized to s in Danish, as would most often happen in Norwegian. Many words originally derived from Latin roots retain c in their Danish spelling, for example Norwegian sentrum vs Danish centrum.
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