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Hej, jeg hedder [name]. Hi everybody! I’m [name].
Welcome to DanishClass101.com’s “Dansk på 3 minutter”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Danish.
In the last lesson, you learned how to use Danish adjectives easily.
In this lesson we will start a series of lessons dedicated to the most common Danish verbs, the ones you will certainly hear all the time!
The first verb in our series will be at skulle, which means a lot of things, but for this lesson it means "to go". We will use this word along with many different destinations.
You will see that in Danish, you have to use an appropriate linking word to connect at skulle to your destination.
So imagine someone asks you Hvor skal du hen i ferien? That means "Where are you going for your holidays?”
So if you are going to some place warm for example, you will say in Danish Jeg skal på stranden.
[slowly] Jeg skal på stranden.
This means “I’m going to the beach.”
So let’s break down this answer.
First we had-
Jeg skal which is "I am going to..."
It is the present tense form of the verb at skulle, "to go".
After it came på which means “on” in Danish, but it’s used more like "to" in English.
Finally, we had stranden which is a noun that means “the beach”.
So now, let’s have an explanation of these connecting words between Jeg skal meaning "I go" and your destination. It largely depends on where you are going. Words like stranden meaning “the beach” and landet meaning “the countryside” all paint a general picture of the place you are going to, and you use på for those. For most other more specific destinations you use til, which is more similar to “to” in English.
So if you are going to Copenhagen for example, you’ll say Jeg skal til København
[slowly] Jeg skal til København.
If you are going to an event like a festival or a wedding, you will also use either på or til. So let’s see how you would say this. Jeg skal på festival.
[slowly] Jeg skal på festival
Here, festival means, well, “festival.” And then Jeg skal til bryllup.
[slowly] Jeg skal til bryllup.
Bryllup means “wedding.”
With some words you will use the third option i, which literally means “in.” For example, Jeg skal i skoven.
[slowly] Jeg skal i skoven. This means “I’m going to the woods.”
Now it’s time for [name]’s Insights.
In Danish, if you want to ask where you and your friends are going, you should use “we.” You’ll substitute the pronoun du with vi.
Hvor skal vi hen? means “where are we going?”
[slowly] Hvor skal vi hen?
To which the answer could be-
Vi skal i parken which is “We are going to the park.”
[slowly]Vi skal i parken.
You can also make a more interrogative question by rephrasing the sentence like this-
Skal vi i parken? meaning “Are we going to the park?”
[slowly] Skal vi i parken?
So, in this lesson, you learned how to use the verb at skulle and to use the correct linking words with it to talk about your destination.
Next time you’ll learn another very useful verb, at lave.
Do you know what this verb means? I’ll be waiting for you with the answer in the next Dansk på 3 minutter.
Vi ses!

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