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English translation In 1877 Brandes left Copenhagen and took up residence in Berlin. ... In Danish, the number 40 is called fyrre. In Norwegian, it is førti, ...
The optional second part of the word is not the number tyve, "20", but an old plural of ti, "ten" (like in English forty, German vierzig); the first part is a variant of the number fire, "four". Similarly, tredive is a compound of tre , "three", and a weakened form of the old plural of ti , "ten".
The Danish and Norwegian alphabet is the set of symbols, forming a variant of the Latin alphabet, used for writing the Danish and Norwegian languages. It has consisted of the following 29 letters since 1917 (Norwegian) and 1948 (Danish):
Danish and English are both Germanic languages. Danish is a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse, and English is a West Germanic language descended from Old English. Old Norse exerted a strong influence on Old English in the early medieval period. The shared Germanic heritage of Danish and English is demonstrated with many common ...
Today (since 1989) the same telephone number is dialed in Denmark, regardless of where you call from, but the dialling information is still in principle at the forefront of the number. Numbers beginning with 20-31 are preferably mobile numbers, those beginning with 70 and 72-79 are preferably landline numbers, and so on.
ISO 639 is a standardized nomenclature used to classify languages. [1] Each language is assigned a two-letter (set 1) and three-letter lowercase abbreviation (sets 2–5). [2]
A 2010 analysis indicated that French to English translation is relatively accurate, [139] and 2011 and 2012 analyses showed that Italian to English translation is relatively accurate as well. [ 140 ] [ 141 ] However, if the source text is shorter, rule-based machine translations often perform better; this effect is particularly evident in ...
the Danish pound (pund) as 1 ⁄ 62 of the weight of a cubic Rhineland foot of water (499.7 g) the Danish ell ( alen ) as 2 Rhineland feet (630 mm) Rømer also suggested a pendulum definition for the foot (although this would not be implemented until after his death), and invented an early temperature scale.