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Danish orthography is the system and norms used for writing the Danish language, including spelling and punctuation. Officially, the norms are set by the Danish language council through the publication of Retskrivningsordbogen. Danish currently uses a 29-letter Latin-script alphabet with an additional three letters: æ , ø and å .
In short, Danish morphology offers very little in moods. Just like English, Danish depends on tense and modals to express moods. Example: Where a language with an explicit subjunctive mood (such as German, Spanish, or Icelandic) would use that mood in hypothetical statements, Danish uses a strategy similar to that of English. Compare: a.
Many words originally derived from Latin roots retain c in their Danish spelling, for example Norwegian sentrum vs Danish centrum. The "foreign" letters also sometimes appear in the spelling of otherwise-indigenous family names. For example, many of the Danish families that use the surname Skov (meaning 'forest') spell it Schou.
Flæskesteg (Danish pronunciation: ['flɛskə.stɐ̯j]), the Danish version of roast pork, is considered to be one of Denmark's principal national dishes. [1] Always prepared with crackling , it is also a favourite for the Danish Christmas dinner served as the evening meal on 24 December or Christmas Eve .
The following is an example of Danish spoken by two youth in Copenhagen. Speaker A speaks Berber as a first language and speaker B's first language is Kurdish. Nonetheless, their Danish includes elements of Arabic (wallah 'I swear') and Turkish (kız 'girl', para 'money'), and English (I got 'I have', -s plural ending on the Turkish word para).
The letter arose as a version of the ligature oe . In Danish manuscripts from the 12th and 13th century, the letter used to represent an /ø/ sound is most frequently written as an o with a line through, but also oe . The line could both be horizontal or vertical. [8]
A Folk Tale (Danish: Et Folkesagn) is a ballet in three acts, created in 1854 for the Royal Danish Ballet by the Danish ballet master and choreographer August Bournonville to the music of Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann and Niels W. Gade. The first performance took place on 20 March 1854.
Lærke is a Danish feminine first name meaning "lark". [1] It was ranked as the fourth most popular name for girls born in Denmark in 2009, rising from 10th place in 2008. [2] Lærke was first invented as a name by poet Sigfred Pedersen who named his firstborn Lærke in 1946 in Denmark. The name has been in use since that time in Denmark.