INTRODUCTION |
In this lesson, we’re going to continue with counting from 11 to 100. |
GRAMMAR POINT |
Let’s just quickly review 0-10. |
0 nul |
1 en |
et if the thing you count is neutral |
2 to |
3 tre |
4 fire |
5 fem |
6 seks |
7 syv |
8 otte |
9 ni |
10 ti |
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Now let’s continue with 11 to 20. |
11 elleve |
(slow) elleve. |
elleve |
12 tolv |
(slow) tolv |
tolv |
11 and 12 in Danish are just like their English counterparts - they’re irregular. |
From 13 and up, we add ten to the numeral word, thereby creating the next 7 numbers. Just like English. |
Here are the next 7 numbers. |
13 tretten |
(slow) tre-tten |
tretten |
14 fjorten |
(slow) fjor-ten |
fjorten |
15 femten |
(slow) femten |
femten |
16 seksten |
(slow) seksten |
seksten |
17 sytten |
(slow) sytten |
sytten |
18 atten |
(slow) atten |
atten |
19 nitten |
(slow) nitten |
nitten |
Now let’s count from 10 to 100, and try to notice the lack of similarities. |
10 ti |
(slow) ti |
ti |
20 tyve |
(slow) tyve |
tyve |
30 tredive |
(slow) tredive |
tredive |
40 fyrre |
(slow) fyrre |
fyrre |
50 halvtreds |
(slow)halvtreds |
halvtreds |
60 tres |
(slow) tres |
tres |
70 halvfjerds |
(slow) halvfjerds |
halvfjerds |
80 firs |
(slow) firs |
firs |
90 halvfems |
(slow) halvfems |
halvfems |
Finally, we have et hundrede, which is “one hundred.” |
100 hundrede |
(slow) hundrede |
hundrede |
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Now that we’ve learned the tens, let’s learn counting the numbers that are in between. Unlike English, the decimal comes after the numeral like this: |
21 sounds like this: enogtyve. |
First we have the numeral 1 en. |
Followed by og which means “and” |
(slow) og |
og |
And at the end we have the decimal tyve “twenty”. |
(slow) Tyve. |
Tyve. |
These 3 words come together to make the number enogtyve. |
The whole number is enogtyve - literally translated as “one and twenty”. |
Let’s make some sentences using numbers now. |
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Here is the first one: |
“I have fifty crowns.” |
Jeg har halvtreds kroner. |
Let’s break it down: |
(slow) Jeg har halv-treds kro-ner. |
Once again: |
Jeg har halvtreds kroner. |
First we have the personal pronoun jeg or “I” in English. |
(slow) Jeg. |
Jeg. |
Har is the present form of the verb “to have.” |
(slow) Har. |
Har. |
The next word, halvtreds, means “fifty.” |
(slow) Halv-treds. |
Halvtreds. |
The last word kroner is the Danish currency, called crown. And since we have more than one crown it is in the plural - “crowns” |
(slow) Kroner. |
Kroner. |
Altogether, we have |
Jeg har halvtreds kroner. |
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Let’s try making the Danish word for “fifty–three.” “Fifty” is halvtreds and “three” is tre. Putting them together, we get treoghalvtreds or “fifty-three.” |
Let’s break it down: |
(slow) Treoghalvtreds. |
And once more: |
Treoghalvtreds. |
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Let’s use treoghalvtreds to say “I have fifty-three crowns”: |
Jeg har treoghalvtreds kroner. |
Let’s break that down: |
(slow) Jeg har tre-og-halv-treds kro-ner. |
And at natural speed: |
Jeg har treoghalvtreds kroner. |
Jeg har is translated as “I have”. |
We just learned that treoghalvtreds means “fifty-three.” |
(slow) Treoghalvtreds. |
Treoghalvtreds. |
The last word, kroner, is literally translated as “crowns”. |
The whole sentence, then, is |
Jeg har treoghalvtreds kroner. |
Now let’s try saying one’s age. Imagine you are 30 years old. That will sound like this: Jeg er tredive år gammel. |
Jeg er meaning “I am”. |
(slow) Jeg er. |
Jeg er. |
Followed by the number, in this case 30 |
(slow) Tre-di-ve. |
Tredive |
År is the Danish word for year. |
(slow) År. |
År. |
And lastly we have the word gammel which literally means “old” |
Altogether, that makes. |
Jeg er tredive år gammel. |
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