X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Danish grammar


Danish grammar

The definite e-form is historically identical to the so-called weak declension of the Germanic adjective, cf.

The definite article, -en, -et, -(e)ne, is postpositive as in the other Scandinavian languages save the West Jutlandic dialect of Danish, which has the prepositive æ (inflexible).

Like in other Germanic languages, the conjugation of verb tenses is divided into two groups: The first group, the so-called weak verbs, indicates the past tense by adding the suffixes -ede or -te.

Like the other Scandinavian languages, Danish has a special inflection for the passive voice with the suffix -s, which is historically a reduced enclitic form of the reflexive pronoun sig ("himself, herself, itself, themselves"), e.g. han kalder sig "he calls himself" > han kaldes "he is called".



see also

Skt. Jørgens Gymnasium

Jørgens Gymnasium (1858–1991) was a Danish grammar school located in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen.