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DANISH DICTIONARY
English-Danish
Danish-English
Edited by Anna Garde.
Additional material by W. Glyn Jones
London and New York
First published 1991
by G . E . C Gads Forlag,
Copenhagen
Republished 1995
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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Transferred to Digital Printing 2006
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Danish dictionary: English-Danish, Danish-English / edited by Anna
Garde; additional material by W. Glyn Jones.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-415-10803-9
1. Danish language-Dictionaries-English. 2. English language
Dictionaries-Danish. 1. Garde, Anna. II. Jones, W. Glyn.
PD3640.D36 1994
439.8'1321-dc20 93-40631
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CONTENTS
A guide to Danish pronunciation ......................................... vii
Notes on Danish nouns and verbs ........................................ xii
Abbreviations ................................................................. xxiv
ENGLISH-DANISH DICTIONARy...................................... 1-354
DANISH-ENGLISH DICTIONARy.................................. 355-684
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A GUIDE TO
DANISH PRONUNCIATION
STRESS
The stress will normally fall on the first syllable of a Danish word,
with a secondary stress on the first syllable of each element in a
compound:
hoved - hovedbanegard
This rule does not, however, apply to certain prefixes, which are
not stressed, e.g. be-, er-: betale; erhverv. Not does it apply to
foreign loan words, where the stress tends to follow the pattern of
the original: restaurant; museum; bibliotek.
LENGTH
All vowels can be both long and short, and their quality is usually
apparent from the orthography. A vowel followed by a single
consonant and a further vowel will be long; one followed by a
double consonant will be short:
Short vowel Long vowel
glad glade
hau hane
du dukke
dyster dyne
dod dode
In addition, the sole vowel in many monosyllables will be long: hus;
is; tur; dyb.
It should be noted that the immediate proximity of the letter -r
will affect the quality of certain vowels.
vii
viii A Guide to Danish Pronunciation
ST0D
The stf,d, or glottal stop, can occur virtually anywhere in Danish
words. The written language gives no indication of whether there is
a stod or not, and the dictionary makes no attempt to show it.
VOWELS
Letter Quality Description Examples
a short as in northern English
'man' mand, kat
long more open, as in 'mare' bane,hane
with -r- as in 'park' bare, k1ar
e short half way between English
'men' and 'pin', 'slid' pen,ven
long rather like the English ai in
'pain', but slightly more
closed mene, sten
as final, rather like the final -er in
unstressed 'mother' gore, smukke
with -r- slightly more open ren, rest
de in the plural article/pronoun
de, the -e is pronounced as
the English -ee in 'bee'
short similar to short -e- ind, ingen
long as in English 'tea' or 'bee' piue, mine
with -r- little change ride, rive
0 short as in English 'moth' som, nok
long as in northern English 'coal' god, love
with -r- little change rolig, mor
u short as in northern English 'but' mut, kutter
long as in English 'boot' dU,hus
with -r- little change krut, rude
y short with lips formed to say 0, try
to sayee. Compare French
eu Iykke, stykke
long with lips formed to say u, try
to sayee. Compare
German miide. dyb,lyder
with -r- little change rydde, dyr
short similar to English 'best' trenke, brenk
long similar but longer prene, glrede
A Guide to Danish Pronunciation ix
with -r little change prere,lrere
short as short y above dad, blad
long similar but longer dade, blade
with -r slightly more open rad, tar
short as in English often m~itte, blat
long as in English saw ma, bla
with -r- little change rabe, rade
DIPHTHONGS
Single Danish vowels do not show the tendency towards
diphthongization that is found in English. There are, however,
diphthongs in Danish, though the following letter combinations do
not always form diphthongs, e.g. the -ag- in dag does not, whereas
in dagJig, it does.
-aj- as English 'my' bajer, hajer
af- diphthongized as prefix only; as
English 'how' afgang, afsked
-ag- as English 'how' dagJig, fagbog
-av- as English 'how' tavs, navn, rav
but not always diphthongized lav, brav
-au- as English 'how' pause
-eg- as English 'my' meget, bleg, jeg
sometimes not diphthongized eg, steget
-ej- as English 'my' nej, sejle
-ek- pronounced as English 'my' in
seksten, but otherwise not
diphthongized
-ig- as in English 'my' mig, sig
this combination is not always a
diphthong sige, vige, Jig
-og- rather like the English 'below' og,dog
-ov- as-og-, above sove, over
-ag- as English 'boy' dagn, mag, lag
this combination is not always a
diphthong Kage, sage
-aj- as -ag-, above skajte, taj, hajre,
staj
CONSONANTS
Danish consonants are 'lighter', less aspirated, than their English
