alex12th September 2026 at 1:37pm
- instead of maps to i stedet for in Danish; et sted means a place, and it suggests how a stead exists in English.
- verbs in Danish usually only have one form in each tense (jeg spiser, du spiser, han spiser, etc.), as opposed to English (I want, but she wants) – and saying that she want is one very subtle mistake some Danes do in English!
- Danish tends to iterate over words with slightly different compositions; does English too? To come, and to become, and to overcome; at tale, at betale, at omtale, at overtale;