Learn how to say where you're from
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| Hi everyone, I'm Jonas. Hej, alle sammen. Jeg hedder Jonas. Welcome to the Danish Whiteboard Lessons. |
| In this lesson you'll learn how to say where you're from. Let's get started. |
| All right, let's look at today's dialogue. When I read, I want you to pay attention to the place name. |
| Find where the speaker is from and see how they say that in the dialogue. Here we go. |
| Hvor kommer du fra? Jeg kommer fra Ålborg. So in English that's where you're from? |
| The answer is, I'm from Ålborg. |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. This pattern will be the structure that all of our dialogues will follow. |
| Here we go. Jeg er fra, and then we put either place or city and country in. |
| Okay, let's look at the vocabulary. First we have hvor. Hvor means where. It's a general hv question word. |
| Hvor. Hvor. Hvor. Next is kommer. Kommer means come. It's the verb of to come, other to or from in Danish. |
| Kommer. Kommer. Kommer. Next is du. It's the Danish pronoun of you, second person singular. |
| Du. Du. Du. And then we have fra. Fra is the Danish preposition of from. Fra. Fra. Fra. |
| Then we have jeg. Jeg is the I in Danish. It's a pronoun of first person singular. Jeg. Jeg. Jeg. |
| Last one is Ålborg. Ålborg is the city up here in the northern part of Jylland. Ålborg. Ålborg. Ålborg. |
| Now let's look at some of the speaking examples. Jeg kommer fra Jylland. I'm from Jutland. |
| Next is Jeg kommer fra Odense. I'm from Odense. All right, at this point we'll take a little bit closer look at the tiny map here we have of Denmark. |
| So the three main regions in Denmark are, here we go, the peninsula is called Jylland. Also in English, Jutland. |
| Middle island is Fyn. In English, Funen. Eastern island is Sjælland. In English, Sealand. |
| And the four main cities that you should know is the capital on Sjælland called København. On Fyn we're looking at Odense. |
| And in Jylland we need to know about Ålborg in the north and Århus. |
| Hvor kommer du fra? So this is the Danish phrase 'where you're from?' in English. |
| Even though Danish and English are quite similar in grammar and phrasing, this basic phrase differs a little bit. |
| Danes, they ask more plainly, where do you come from? The meaning and use in conversation is exactly the same as in English. |
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