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Hey everyone, I'm Jonas.
Hej alle sammen, jeg hedder Jonas.
Welcome to the Danish Whiteboard Lessons.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to give someone your name.
Let's get started.
Let's look at the dialogue.
When I read, I want you to pay attention to how they give their name.
Find that part and see how it's used in the dialogue.
Here we go.
Hej, jeg hedder Nikolaj Nedergaard.
Hvad hedder du?
Jeg hedder Anders Rasmussen.
Godt at møde dig.
So the English version of that would be,
My name is Nikolaj Nedergaard.
What is your name?
My name is Anders Rasmussen.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Now let's look at the sentence pattern.
This pattern is the structure that our dialogue follows.
Here we go.
Hvad hedder du?
Jeg hedder, insert your name.
You can also use mit navn er, insert your name.
Both of them mean the same thing, but mit navn er is a slight bit more official, like the
first time that you greet your new co-workers.
In English it goes, what's your name?
My name is, insert your name.
Okay, let's look at the vocabulary.
First we have, jeg, I, jeg, jeg, jeg.
Jeg is a pronoun in Danish, it's the first person singular.
Next is, du, you, du.
Du is also a pronoun, that's the second person singular in Danish.
Next is, hvad, what, hvad, hvad, hvad, hvad is a general HV question word in Danish.
Next is, hedder, named, hedder, hedder, hedder.
So that's a verb in Danish, to be named something, at hedde.
Next is, hej, basically meaning hi.
We have a couple of variations on hi, goddag, or davs, both of them are casual and can use
Next is, rart a møde dig, basically meaning nice to meet you.
Now the word rart is an adjective, we have a couple of variations on it, like this, godt,
godt a møde dig, or hyggeligt, hyggeligt a møde dig, or dejligt, dejligt a møde dig.
It's very important to remember that we don't use ""me too"" in Danish.
Last thing here, when we're confirming something correctly in Danish, we would go like this,
ja, det er det, or tak i lige måde, basically meaning yes it is, or thanks, likewise.
Ja, det er det, or tak i lige måde.
Let's look at the following two sentences.
Dejligt a møde dig, we had that one before, nice to meet you.
Okay, so in old Danish society we didn't use to say these politeness phrases, but it's
an influence from English speaking society now, so nowadays it's perfectly okay to say,
oh, nice to meet you, dejligt a møde dig.
The other one is this one, undskyld, hvad hedder du?
I'm sorry, what's your name?
It's important to remember to be a little bit polite when asking for people's names.
If you just called, go up and ask, what's your name?
Hvad hedder du?
It sure is considered a little bit impolite.
Remember to add, undskyld, hvad hedder du?
I'm sorry, what's your name?

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