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INTRODUCTION
In this lesson, we’re going to continue with counting from 11 to 100.
GRAMMAR POINT
Let’s just quickly review 0-10.
0 nul
1 en
et if the thing you count is neutral
2 to
3 tre
4 fire
5 fem
6 seks
7 syv
8 otte
9 ni
10 ti
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Now let’s continue with 11 to 20.
11 elleve
(slow) elleve.
elleve
12 tolv
(slow) tolv
tolv
11 and 12 in Danish are just like their English counterparts - they’re irregular.
From 13 and up, we add ten to the numeral word, thereby creating the next 7 numbers. Just like English.
Here are the next 7 numbers.
13 tretten
(slow) tre-tten
tretten
14 fjorten
(slow) fjor-ten
fjorten
15 femten
(slow) femten
femten
16 seksten
(slow) seksten
seksten
17 sytten
(slow) sytten
sytten
18 atten
(slow) atten
atten
19 nitten
(slow) nitten
nitten
Now let’s count from 10 to 100, and try to notice the lack of similarities.
10 ti
(slow) ti
ti
20 tyve
(slow) tyve
tyve
30 tredive
(slow) tredive
tredive
40 fyrre
(slow) fyrre
fyrre
50 halvtreds
(slow)halvtreds
halvtreds
60 tres
(slow) tres
tres
70 halvfjerds
(slow) halvfjerds
halvfjerds
80 firs
(slow) firs
firs
90 halvfems
(slow) halvfems
halvfems
Finally, we have et hundrede, which is “one hundred.”
100 hundrede
(slow) hundrede
hundrede
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Now that we’ve learned the tens, let’s learn counting the numbers that are in between. Unlike English, the decimal comes after the numeral like this:
21 sounds like this: enogtyve.
First we have the numeral 1 en.
Followed by og which means “and”
(slow) og
og
And at the end we have the decimal tyve “twenty”.
(slow) Tyve.
Tyve.
These 3 words come together to make the number enogtyve.
The whole number is enogtyve - literally translated as “one and twenty”.
Let’s make some sentences using numbers now.
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Here is the first one:
“I have fifty crowns.”
Jeg har halvtreds kroner.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Jeg har halv-treds kro-ner.
Once again:
Jeg har halvtreds kroner.
First we have the personal pronoun jeg or “I” in English.
(slow) Jeg.
Jeg.
Har is the present form of the verb “to have.”
(slow) Har.
Har.
The next word, halvtreds, means “fifty.”
(slow) Halv-treds.
Halvtreds.
The last word kroner is the Danish currency, called crown. And since we have more than one crown it is in the plural - “crowns”
(slow) Kroner.
Kroner.
Altogether, we have
Jeg har halvtreds kroner.
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Let’s try making the Danish word for “fifty–three.” “Fifty” is halvtreds and “three” is tre. Putting them together, we get treoghalvtreds or “fifty-three.”
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Treoghalvtreds.
And once more:
Treoghalvtreds.
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Let’s use treoghalvtreds to say “I have fifty-three crowns”:
Jeg har treoghalvtreds kroner.
Let’s break that down:
(slow) Jeg har tre-og-halv-treds kro-ner.
And at natural speed:
Jeg har treoghalvtreds kroner.
Jeg har is translated as “I have”.
We just learned that treoghalvtreds means “fifty-three.”
(slow) Treoghalvtreds.
Treoghalvtreds.
The last word, kroner, is literally translated as “crowns”.
The whole sentence, then, is
Jeg har treoghalvtreds kroner.
Now let’s try saying one’s age. Imagine you are 30 years old. That will sound like this: Jeg er tredive år gammel.
Jeg er meaning “I am”.
(slow) Jeg er.
Jeg er.
Followed by the number, in this case 30
(slow) Tre-di-ve.
Tredive
År is the Danish word for year.
(slow) År.
År.
And lastly we have the word gammel which literally means “old”
Altogether, that makes.
Jeg er tredive år gammel.

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