Danish Grammar
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Danish grammar

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Nouns (things)
Verbs (actions)
Gender The infinitive (to walk, to say)
List of neuter-gender nouns The present (I walk, He says)
The indefinite article (a book) The past (I walked, He said)
The definite article (the book) The past participle (forgotten, written, done, been)
The indefinite plural (books) The present perfect (I have walked, He has said)
The definite plural (the books) The past perfect (I had walked, He had said)
Plural = Singular (1 sheep -- 2 sheep) The present participle (walking, saying)
Irregular plurals (1 mouse -- 2 mice) The present continuous (I am walking, He is driving)
Noncount nouns (butter, water, sugar, love) Modal verbs (must, can, will)
The possessive (the girl's shoes, the boys' bicycles) Reflexive verbs (no English equivalent)
Compound nouns (library + book) The passive voice (Gold is found in South Africa)
  Verbs ending in s
  The imperative (Close the door, Sit down)
  The future
  Problem verbs
  Phrasal verbs (to hang out, to shut up, to call off)
   
Noun list
Verb list
   
Pronouns
Sentence structure (word order)
Personal pronoun table Basic structure (He is writing a postcard)
Personal (I - me, he - him, she - her) Negation (He is not writing a postcard)
Possessive (my car, it is mine, ...) With adverbial (He always writes postcards)
The reflexive pronoun (myself, himself, itself, ...) With modal verb (He ought to write a postcard)
Der vs. Det (there, that/it) With perfect tenses (He has/had written a postcard)
Interrogative (who, what, why, ...) With indirect object (He is writing me a postcard)
Relative (The man who gave...) Preposition (You can write on it)
Demonstrative (this, that, these, those) til + indirect object (He is writing a postcard to me)
Indefinite pronouns (mixed) With end adverbial (He will write a postcard tomorrow)
Much, many (meget, mange) Main and subordinate clauses
Some, any, something, anything (noget, nogen, nogle) Inversion
  Conjunctions (and, but, or, because, ...)
   
Adjectives (a small car, round table, . . .)
Adverbs (she sings beautifully)
The 3 forms Introduction to adverbs
Definite article (the red car, the wet clothes, ...) Long and short adverbs of place
Irregular adjectives  
Comparisons (fast, faster, fastest)  
   
Adjective list
 
   
Morphology
Miscellaneous
Polysemes Prepositions
Homonyms (look and sound the same) Small words
Homophones (sound the same)  
False cognates (look like English words, but not related)