Learn how to tell someone your name in Danish
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| Hey everyone, I'm Jonas. |
| Hej alle sammen, jeg hedder Jonas. |
| Welcome to the Danish Whiteboard Lessons. |
| In this lesson, you'll learn how to give someone your name. |
| Let's get started. |
| Let's look at the dialogue. |
| When I read, I want you to pay attention to how they give their name. |
| Find that part and see how it's used in the dialogue. |
| Here we go. |
| Hej, jeg hedder Nikolaj Nedergaard. |
| Hvad hedder du? |
| Jeg hedder Anders Rasmussen. |
| Godt at møde dig. |
| So the English version of that would be, |
| My name is Nikolaj Nedergaard. |
| What is your name? |
| My name is Anders Rasmussen. |
| Nice to meet you. |
| Nice to meet you. |
| Now let's look at the sentence pattern. |
| This pattern is the structure that our dialogue follows. |
| Here we go. |
| Hvad hedder du? |
| Jeg hedder, insert your name. |
| You can also use mit navn er, insert your name. |
| Both of them mean the same thing, but mit navn er is a slight bit more official, like the |
| first time that you greet your new co-workers. |
| In English it goes, what's your name? |
| My name is, insert your name. |
| Okay, let's look at the vocabulary. |
| First we have, jeg, I, jeg, jeg, jeg. |
| Jeg is a pronoun in Danish, it's the first person singular. |
| Next is, du, you, du. |
| Du is also a pronoun, that's the second person singular in Danish. |
| Next is, hvad, what, hvad, hvad, hvad, hvad is a general HV question word in Danish. |
| Next is, hedder, named, hedder, hedder, hedder. |
| So that's a verb in Danish, to be named something, at hedde. |
| Next is, hej, basically meaning hi. |
| We have a couple of variations on hi, goddag, or davs, both of them are casual and can use |
| Next is, rart a møde dig, basically meaning nice to meet you. |
| Now the word rart is an adjective, we have a couple of variations on it, like this, godt, |
| godt a møde dig, or hyggeligt, hyggeligt a møde dig, or dejligt, dejligt a møde dig. |
| It's very important to remember that we don't use ""me too"" in Danish. |
| Last thing here, when we're confirming something correctly in Danish, we would go like this, |
| ja, det er det, or tak i lige måde, basically meaning yes it is, or thanks, likewise. |
| Ja, det er det, or tak i lige måde. |
| Let's look at the following two sentences. |
| Dejligt a møde dig, we had that one before, nice to meet you. |
| Okay, so in old Danish society we didn't use to say these politeness phrases, but it's |
| an influence from English speaking society now, so nowadays it's perfectly okay to say, |
| oh, nice to meet you, dejligt a møde dig. |
| The other one is this one, undskyld, hvad hedder du? |
| I'm sorry, what's your name? |
| It's important to remember to be a little bit polite when asking for people's names. |
| If you just called, go up and ask, what's your name? |
| Hvad hedder du? |
| It sure is considered a little bit impolite. |
| Remember to add, undskyld, hvad hedder du? |
| I'm sorry, what's your name? |
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