Danish/Lesson 3

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In this section we attempt to teach you numbers and colors in Danish.

Tal ~ Numbers

The Danish number system can be confusing. Instead of saying twenty-one, in Danish the equivalent is literally one-and-twenty. This rule goes all the way up to the nineties. It can seem illogical at times, especially when reciting phone numbers. The hundreds, thousands, millions and so on are put in the same order as in English. If you want to say four thousand two hundred twenty-four it's fire tusinde to hundrede og fireogtyve which literally is four thousands two hundreds fourandtwenty. Notice that there aren't any spaces in numbers below 100 when written in words in Danish, but numbers higher than 100 are split up in several words. Also notice that thousands are mentioned in plural because there's more than one (fire tusinde-).

1	=	en/et	11	=	elleve	21	=	enogtyve
2	=	to	12	=	tolv	30	=	tredive
3	=	tre	13	=	tretten	40	=	fyrre
4	=	fire	14	=	fjorten	50	=	halvtreds
5	=	fem	15	=	femten	60	=	tres
6	=	seks	16	=	seksten	70	=	halvfjerds
7	=	syv	17	=	sytten	80	=	firs
8	=	otte	18	=	atten	90	=	halvfems
9	=	ni	19	=	nitten	100	=	hundred(e)
10	=	ti	20	=	tyve	1000	=	et tusind

Farver ~ Colours

Red - Rød
Blue - Blå
Yellow - Gul
Green - Grøn
Purple - Lilla
Orange - Orange
Brown - Brun
Black - Sort
White - Hvid
Grey - Grå

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