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DanishEnglish-Danish lexicon. 65,806 bytes English-Danish lexicon. 185,642 bytes OVERVIEW Danish is part of the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family. It is spoken by about five million people in Denmark, the Faeroes, and Greenland. There is a large body of oral ballads from the medieval period. Danish was first written in the thirteenth century, and the Bible was translated into Danish during the Reformation. ORTHOGRAPHY The same 26 letters as English plus œ, å, and ø. PHONOLOGY Consonants Stops: p, b, t, d, k, g, ʔ Fricatives: f, v, s, ʃ. h, ð, ɤ, j Nasals: m, n, ŋ Lateral: l Uvular trill: ʀ Vowels Front: i, e, ɛ, y, ø, œ Central: a Back: ɔ, o, u Neutral: ə All consonants are short. Danish spelling is slightly irregular; for instance initial p, t, k are aspirated; non-initially all of the stops become vocalized and unaspirated; g is silent in certain environments. The glottal stop (stød) is equivalent to the acute tone in Norwegian and Swedish. Stress is usually on the first syllable of the root. MORPHOLOGY AND SYNTAX Word Order SVO. OVS can be used for emphasis. Articles The definite article is formed by a suffix: -en = common, -et = neuter, -ene the plural of either gender. If an adjective is present, the suffix is replaced by the demonstratives den, det and de. Nouns There are two genders: common and neuter. Nouns are pluralized in -e, -(e)r, or ∅. The genitive suffix is -s, all other cases are indicated by prepositions. Adjectives Adjectives precede the noun. They add -t if the noun is a neuter singular. Comparatives are made using -(e)re. Pronouns Personal Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Interrogative Pronouns
Numerals
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