Learn how to ask "Where?"
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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 ask "What" questions in Danish. |
| This time, you are going to learn how to ask questions using the interrogative word "Where?" |
| Imagine you want to ask where your friend is now. You will ask him Hvor er du? This is the exact translation of "Where are you?" |
| [slowly] Hvor er du? |
| So let’s break down this question. |
| First we had- |
| Hvor, which is the basic translation of "Where" in Danish. |
| er, which is "are", the present tense form of the verb at være which we have already studied. |
| Finally du, which is the word for "you" |
| So, altogether it is Hvor er du?, "Where are you?" |
| In Danish, "Where" is translated as Hvor |
| So for example, if you want to ask "Where do you live?" You will say Hvor bor du? |
| As in English, the interrogative word is placed in the 1st position here, then the verb, and then the subject. |
| Like hvad, meaning “what”, from our previous lesson, hvor is just as easy, short, and practical. It shouldn’t be complicated at all to ask questions with hvor. Just remember that it is the first word in the sentence. |
| So let’s look at some questions that feature hvor. |
| Say you want to ask where you are going with your friends. It’s as easy as saying, Hvor skal vi hen? |
| [slowly] Hvor skal vi hen? |
| You might remember skal from one of our previous lessons. |
| You may also ask where someone is from by saying, hvor er du fra? |
| [slowly] Hvor er du fra? |
| Which translates as “Where are you from?” |
| Now it’s time for [name]’s Insights. |
| If they’ve forgotten where they left something, Danes tend to ask themselves where they left it. Say your friend forgot where she left her keys. She would say, hvor lagde jeg nøglerne? “Where did I put the keys?” |
| It’s funny to hear them mumbling to themselves, but the sentence itself can also be turned into a practical question. If you switch the pronoun you can ask others where they left something. Say you want to know where your friend put the remote control. Just ask, |
| hvor lagde du fjernbetjeningen? “where did you put the remote control?” |
| [slowly] Hvor lagde du fjernbetjeningen? |
| Before ending this lesson, let’s look at one more usage for hvor. Let’s say you are lost somewhere in Denmark and you want to know where the station is. To ask a stranger, simply stop them by saying Undskyld “Excuse me”, a word we learned in one of the first lessons. Then ask Ved du, hvor nærmeste station er? “Do you know where the closest station is?” |
| [slowly] Ved du, hvor nærmeste station er? |
| Of course, you can substitute nærmeste station with any other place like “The Opera” or Operaen. The sentence wouldn’t change at all. Ved du, hvor Operaen er? |
| Simple as that. |
| In this lesson, you learned how to correctly use the Danish word for "Where", Hvor, and also its different variations. |
| Now you can avoid getting lost! |
| In the next lesson we’ll learn more about asking questions, this time using "When" in Danish. |
| I’ll be waiting for you in the next Dansk på tre minutter. |
| Vi ses! |
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