If you're trying to learn Danish Feminine which is also called Dansk, check our courses about genders: Feminine and Masculine... to help you with your Danish grammar. Try to concentrate on the lesson and notice the pattern that occurs each time the word changes its place. Also don't forget to check the rest of our other lessons listed on Learn Danish. Enjoy the rest of the lesson!
Learning the Danish Feminine is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Danish language. But first we need to know what the role of Feminine is in the structure of the grammar in Danish.
Danish feminine refers to female qualities attributed specifically to women and girls or things considered feminine. The complement to feminine is masculine. Here are some examples:
| English Feminine | Danish Feminine |
|---|---|
| Feminine | Feminin |
| he is happy | han er glad |
| she is happy | hun er glad |
| he is American | han er amerikansk |
| she is American | hun er amerikansk |
| man | Mand |
| woman | kvinde |
| father | far |
| mother | mor |
| brother | bror |
| sister | søster |
| uncle | onkel |
| aunt | tante |
| bull | tyr |
| cow | ko |
| boy | dreng |
| girl | pige |
Notice the structure of the Feminine in Danish.
Below is a list of objects, can you determine whether they're feminine, masculine or plural in Danish? Memorizing this table will also help you add very useful and important words to your Danish vocabulary.
| English Vocabulary | Danish Vocabulary |
|---|---|
| objects | objekter |
| bathroom | badeværelse |
| bed | seng |
| bedroom | soveværelse |
| ceiling | loft |
| chair | stol |
| clothes | tøj |
| coat | frakke |
| cup | kop |
| desk | desk |
| dress | kjole |
| floor | gulv |
| fork | gaffel |
| furniture | møbler |
| glass | glas |
| hat | hat |
| house | hus |
| ink | blæk |
| jacket | jakke |
| kitchen | køkken |
| knife | kniv |
| lamp | lampe |
| letter | brev |
| map | kort |
| newspaper | avis |
| notebook | notebook |
| pants | bukser |
| paper | papir |
| pen | pen |
| pencil | blyant |
| pharmacy | apotek |
| picture | billede |
| plate | tallerken |
| refrigerator | køleskab |
| restaurant | Restaurant |
| roof | tag |
| room | værelse |
| rug | tæppe |
| scissors | saks |
| shampoo | shampoo |
| shirt | skjorte |
| shoes | sko |
| soap | sæbe |
| socks | sokker |
| spoon | ske |
| table | bord |
| toilet | toilet |
| toothbrush | tandbørste |
| toothpaste | tandpasta |
| towel | håndklæde |
| umbrella | paraply |
| underwear | undertøj |
| wall | væg |
| wallet | tegnebog |
| window | vindue |
| telephone | telefon |
Feminine and Masculine have a very important role in Danish. Once you're done with the Dansk Feminine, you might want to check the rest of our Danish lessons here: Learn Danish. Don't forget to bookmark this page.
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