🇩🇰💦 Danish Language Being Very Literal

🇩🇰💦 Danish Language Being Very Literal | water edition

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Жыл бұрын

😂 🇩🇰 I won’t ever say that learning Danish was easy for me, mostly because I have not learned Danish, but taking Danish lessons was fun. Learning the compound words and how funny and literal they are when translated into English is one of the best parts of learning Danish. It’s also nice to get a three-for-one boost to your Danish vocabulary! Danes and their efficiency - it’s a thing of beauty.
Here are a few of my favorite compound words that have to do with WATER. Ironically, water is a word that I, and many people from Philadelphia, don’t say the same way as other English-speakers (even though I have slowly beat the Philly accent out of myself while living abroad).
If you’re Danish, or moved to Denmark and started learning the language, what are some of YOUR favorite compound words? What “edition” should we make next? 🤩
#danish #sjov #languagelearning #expatindenmark #denmark #dansk
OH, and I guess the origin of dåb is "dip" but the current definition may differ - sorry, I'm not an etymologist (but I'm sure this will create some comment-Karens) and hopefully everyone else just enjoys the video

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@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

🙃 I guess the origin of dåb is "dip" but the current definition may differ - sorry, I'm not an etymologist (but I'm sure this will create some comment-Karens) and hopefully everyone else just enjoys the video

@SpaceBee2 Жыл бұрын

Yea

@eikbrouer Жыл бұрын

and barn is more like kid

@boohoow 11 ай бұрын

Lol, don't call people comment-Karens for pointing out that you made a mistake. It's okay, doesn't ruin the video :)

@TheSnortler Жыл бұрын

Hahaha 🤣 you could probably do a whole segment on sea creatures as well... stinging jellyfish = fireman (brandmand), octopus/squid = ink squirter (blæksprutte), turtle/tortoise = shield amphibian (skildpadde)

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

Hmmm... That's a great idea!

@Ole_Rasmussen Жыл бұрын

@@RobeTrotting The only time I don't cringe at my own language is when you're being excited about it

@darkheart9044 8 ай бұрын

@@Ole_Rasmussen LOL konge kommentar :D

@achris2249 Жыл бұрын

Hose = Vandslange = Water Snake

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

Ah, that’s such a good one - I should have thought of that 🙈

@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks Жыл бұрын

@@RobeTrottingsparkle water=dansk Vand=danish water lol

@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks Жыл бұрын

@@RobeTrottingRandom Edition: airplane=flyvemaskine=flyingMachine

@klausolekristiansen2960 2 ай бұрын

@@DuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDuckDucks Strictly speaking, that is a brand name. But much used generically.

@jonasmghansen3870 Жыл бұрын

Danish people there finally find a little bit good video about Denmark gang:

@3goldfinger Жыл бұрын

You can neither drink a waterman or eat a jellyfish.

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

I challenge that - stay tuned for the video LOL

@socialdining1496 11 ай бұрын

Acually you can, google it. you can get it as chips.

@hassegreiner9675 Жыл бұрын

buksevand, vandhane, vandretur ... no not that one ;-)

@obelix244 Жыл бұрын

vandcykel, vandlås, at træde vande, vandvej, vandspejl :)

@christanolde4126 Жыл бұрын

Koben (crowbar) - cowleg

@runedanmark 12 күн бұрын

Back when my brother in law had just moved to Denmark from New Zealand, he only knew a few words in Danish but enough to get some context. One summer day he went to mow the lawn and while we has add it my sister yelled "pas på vandslangen!"(watch out for the water "snake"), to avoid him destroying the hose. But the image those words had given him was completly different, so he went into panic mode.

@iceelite4460 Жыл бұрын

dipping sounds like a dip for chips or something, so when you say it like that you sound like a cannibal😂

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

😂

@TainDK Жыл бұрын

no worries - you can mix it with babyoil then =P

@Ole_Rasmussen Жыл бұрын

We have a metal band that included in a song how delicious children are for breakfast

@thorpapageorgiouveiler2776 Жыл бұрын

Vandfald 😂

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

Yes 😂 that one is so literal (in English too) haha

@Bjowolf2 Жыл бұрын

The kinship is shining through 😂

@jonahthrane812 Жыл бұрын

A vandmand or waterman are those harmless jellyfish. The stingy ones are brandmand or fireman. Køleskab -> cooling cupboard, or fridge Flyvemaskine -> flying machine, or plane Hovedpude -> head pillow, or pillow for bed Håndværker-> hand worker, or carpenter Dyrelæge-> animal doctor, veterinarian Skrivebord-> writing table, desk Spisebord-> eating table, dining table And honestly my favourite: farmor/farfar/mormor/morfar-> dadmom/daddad/mummum/mumdad, instead of just "grandma" you say moms mom. And sort of the same thing exists for uncles and aunts where your fathers brother is farbror, his sister is faster(far and søster contracted), and moms brother is morbror, and moms sister is moster (mor and søster together).

@JokeofAllButts 11 ай бұрын

dont forget that a fireman is the same as a waterman, just evil :D

@TillyChMo Жыл бұрын

‘Spray bath’ and ‘baby-dipping’ are now two of my favourite words 😂 - I kinda want to go so far as to re-translate them back into Danish … so it’s ’sprøjtebad’ and ‘børne-døpning’ from now on 😅

@Dannyboy314 Жыл бұрын

Okay, I can go with it because it's funny. Yeah, maybe in old Danish, "dåb" was used as dipping. But today, "dåb" is only used to refer to being babtised. The Danish word for dipping, is "dyppe".

@BARBIE14049 7 ай бұрын

Vandhund = water dog (someone Who really LOVES water)

@AnetteEllegaardprofil Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 - never thought about those words before. They seem so natural. Now I see how funny they are 😂

@Lemonz1989 Жыл бұрын

Danish isn’t even my first language, and I haven’t really thought about how literal it is 😅

@Ole_Rasmussen Жыл бұрын

Isn't? Is?

@Lemonz1989 Жыл бұрын

@@Ole_Rasmussen What?

@lauritsmardal9386 11 ай бұрын

sparking water = Danish water

@MsBlackdeath13 Жыл бұрын

Try “vandhane”. It’s a bit naughty if directly translated. 😂

@BetaTestingUrGf 9 ай бұрын

Water rooster ?

@Viljaava2024 Жыл бұрын

What about branmand

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

Yes, I should have included both - maybe another video is due 😊🇩🇰

@amandathurston2720 Жыл бұрын

Brændmand=fire man=the jellyfish that burns you

@Michael-dj6pd 11 ай бұрын

my favourite will always be getting my tap water from a water rooster/vandhane

@antonoid2764 11 ай бұрын

A less literal saying in denmark “Lars tyndskids mark” literally mean Lars’ diarrhea fields

@Midderr 11 ай бұрын

and then our favourite summer meal, cold bowl.

@julybees 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I can agree on that. And I'm Danish myself.

@saranissen6210 Жыл бұрын

Love this. 😂

@lucaa2672 Жыл бұрын

Love your tee btw

@abcdefghijklmnop627 Жыл бұрын

Ik all you say cuz im from denmark and I love your videos

@muffibob5709 Жыл бұрын

Bro i know im born in denmark😂

@sofieblicher9308 11 ай бұрын

As a dane i do confirm it is wery litteral

@SpaceBee2 Жыл бұрын

Vi Laver Ingen Mening😂

@kimhansen854 Жыл бұрын

Jeg er faktisk dansker, det er sjovt at se der er danske videoer her på KZfaq. I Hope u make more Danish videos😊

@Alexander-mw1ek Жыл бұрын

It’s easy to see why religion didn’t go over very well in northern europe. All the ceremonies have very literal names and i think nobody can take them seriously

@Abdull-ps9mm 11 ай бұрын

Finally!

@regularperson9297 Жыл бұрын

Good stuff

@JULEMANDEN99 Жыл бұрын

The image of the waterman is a fireman because it has stingers, a waterman(Aurelia aurita) can't sting it only eats plankton, all other types is called firemen but waterman and firemen are both gobels. This I hope helps

@VOSEGamer12 Жыл бұрын

Go to Google translate from english to danish (jeg elsker det her) 😂

@camillalau6561 11 ай бұрын

Lol im from denmmark 🇩🇰🤭

@Eclipse-mf6hc Жыл бұрын

I both love and hate Danish. On one hand, danish words are either very similar to English or completely different. And pronunciation scares me. I’m too nervous to speak Danish in Denmark even though I’m Danish-Australian and have been surrounded by the culture for my entire life, I can’t speak fluently anymore and Danes can be brutal tbh

@syedmuhammadharis1313 6 ай бұрын

How many months required to learn danish language.. after taking proper admission in language school??

@_Bubbles_go_poof_ 3 ай бұрын

I'm danish lol

@novastegmann4789 11 ай бұрын

Those who are from Denmark 🇩🇰 👇

@lrkedenseje4790 11 ай бұрын

im from denmark and im an Aguarius (vandmand)

@nicholaskruse-srnsen 11 ай бұрын

Im from denmark

@Bjowolf2 Жыл бұрын

So is English to a large degree, but you have a lot more words of Latin origin to camouflage it somewhat. So when you "survive" ( litt. "on-live"), we "overleve" ( litt. "over-live ), when you "ex-amine", we "undersøge" ( "under-seek"), when you "ex-aggerate" ( "out-of-push "), we "over-drive" [ou-er-dreev-e], and when you "per-suade", we "over-tale" ( "over-talk ") etc.

@malthehansen9186 11 ай бұрын

Spray bath is actally bad but but you can say brusebad

@16jan1986 10 ай бұрын

Married and poison same word

@socialdining1496 11 ай бұрын

noo, its not a watermand/ vandmand, its a Gople, and its burns :-) vandmand doesend sting or burn

@ExtrobilyTheScratcher-pe2xt 11 ай бұрын

Bro why the squirt emoji

@louiseherum1569 Жыл бұрын

Grate vid

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

@louiseherum1569 Жыл бұрын

@Nillads 11 ай бұрын

I’m from Denmark you speak danish???😂

@RobeTrotting 11 ай бұрын

Kun lille små med jeg er ikke så god

@unnclip Жыл бұрын

Im from Denmark

@lrkedenseje4790 11 ай бұрын

me too

@smilernok Жыл бұрын

water dipping ,, Child first trauma 😁we celebrate 🥳

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

😂

@smilernok Жыл бұрын

@@RobeTrotting surviving , potential letal damage , makes you stronger ? btw. welcome

@hen-rex 11 ай бұрын

Never thought about that, thank you for giving me a laugh. Some of them are really missing in English though, like farmor/farfar/mormor/morfar, overmorgen/forgårs. Might be childishly simple, but it works.

@RobeTrotting 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, in some ways though - it’s kind of nice that we personalize our grandparents and their names because. Of every family is the same.

@smillazoe469 10 ай бұрын

Im Danish 🇩🇰 omg Jeg er dansk

@Bailoswawa 4 ай бұрын

Jeg spærke dånsk 😊

@Andreas-mj7zp 10 ай бұрын

Jelly fish too??

@zer0_aye-yoheyimzero Жыл бұрын

Im a dane

@mattiprobst4455 11 ай бұрын

Ha jeg er fra danmark

@G4mingNation345 Жыл бұрын

Det er rigtig its right

@Flickr10 11 ай бұрын

Ok jer

@Nikabully 2 күн бұрын

Hej, jeg er en Søn

@TriatanSarlis Жыл бұрын

Vandmand*

@mattiprobst4455 11 ай бұрын

He im front Danmark

@japperdabergaming 11 ай бұрын

Hvorfor siger han det ikke som det er fx vandmand

@Fabermain Жыл бұрын

I thought d0b was crisening.

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

I’m not a linguist, so it would require more research, but that’s become the meaning while the origin is “dip”

@Mads15f7 6 ай бұрын

hej alle samen

@williamlundgaard Жыл бұрын

am from denmark hej mit navn er william

@Emilrasmusen 11 ай бұрын

Hej

@skovjensen8032 Жыл бұрын

I am Danish and yes❤

@AcolyteofRlyeh Жыл бұрын

I am danish, and no.

@Thebildez 9 ай бұрын

I come from Denmark and you are not saying things correctly

@brianwgDK Жыл бұрын

Last not right, the barneDÅB, dåb means christening so it is actually childchristening, not child dipping...

@athearasmussen2671 11 ай бұрын

Noooooooo is fake

@madsmedhatten7321 Жыл бұрын

Du taler ikke dansk

@RobeTrotting Жыл бұрын

Kun lidt.

@lrkedenseje4790 11 ай бұрын

@@RobeTrotting sejt