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INTRODUCTION
Denmark is world renowned for its sophisticated cuisine and award-winning chefs. There is a wide variety of Danish dishes, and your job as a visitor is to try as many different meals as possible! However, before you start eating, you have to get to the table! So in this lesson, we'll cover getting to the table in a restaurant.
GRAMMAR POINT
When entering a Danish restaurant, you will be greeted with Velkommen, which is the Danish word for “welcome”
(slow) Vel-ko-mmen!
Velkommen!
When you enter a restaurant a waiter or waitress will come and will greet you, and often ask you
the question “How many people are you?” in Danish this is
Hvor mange personer er I?
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Hvor mange personer er I?
Once more:
Hvor mange personer er I?
The first word, hvor, means “how”.
(slow) Hvor?
Hvor?
After this comes mange, which means “many”
(slow) Man-ge.
Mange.
Next you have the plural “people” or “persons”
(slow) Per-so-ner.
Personer.
At the end we have er which is the present form of the verb “to be”, translated as “are,” since the next word is the plural pronoun for “you”, I.
(slow) Er I.
Er I.
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Now let’s learn to answer.
You might tell the waiter or waitress
Vi er to personer which in English means “We are two persons.”
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Vi er to per-so-ner.
Once again:
Vi er to personer.
The first two words are the answer for er I. Again er is “are,” but this time we have the plural pronoun vi meaning “we”
(slow) Vi er.
Vi er.
After this comes the number of people; in this case “two”.
(slow) To.
To.
And last we have personer which means “persons”.
Let’s take a look at some of the numbers you might need here, from two to five:
2 to
(slow) to
to
3 tre
(slow) tre
tre
4 fire
(slow) fire
fire
5 fem
(slow) fem
fem
If you are just one person, say Kun mig, which translates as “only me” or “just me”.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Kun mig.
Once more:
Kun mig.
The first word, kun, can mean “just” or “only”
(slow) kun.
kun.
After this we have mig which is the Danish for “me.”
(slow) Mig.
Mig
Another way of answering “just me” is simply by saying en, which is the number “one”.

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