Rask's Danish grammar. RASK'S. DANISH GRAMMAR. THORL. SCHULTZ. PRINTER TO THE KING AND TO THE UNIVERSITY. For, the. first edition being out of print, and a great demand. YOUR. MAJESTY been graciously pleased to supply the. Jeg det er du ikke en og i har vi pThe Editor. therefore most humbly hopes, that YOUR MAJESTY. Fered to the public*. The full title of the first edition runs as fol- . By Erasmus Rask, Professor and Libra- . University of Copenhagen, and member. Nevertheless his arguments made a. Under these. circumstances it appeared, that in point of useful- . Search the history of over 505 billion pages on the Internet. Featured texts All Texts latest This Just In Smithsonian Libraries FEDLINK (US) Genealogy Lincoln. Om lopehjulet er renset s g bor man fjerne stovet fra viftebunnen ved hjelp av en stovsuger. Kontaktdelen og dekselet settes pa plass. Innstilling Onsket temperatur f.eks. 20 C innstilles pa skalaen rett ut for pilen. Don`t know if anyone cares or something like that: www.hippiepuzen.sprayblogg.no almost the same:) putting in the lyrics of a song I really like:) like an ending, (oh, almost sad to leave this one. Drejeretningen angives af pilen p. Drej beskyttelseskappen tilbage I hvilepositionen. Professor. Rask himself had sacrificed some part of his own. I could therefore devise no better. Professor. Rask' s system in all essentials unaltered; but at. Search the history of over 510 billion pages on the Internet. Featured texts All Texts latest This Just In Smithsonian Libraries FEDLINK (US) Genealogy Lincoln. In some instances. I felt the. more justified in adopting this plan, in a far greater. The Q I reinstated, for. Molbech. agree with him in considering it as superfluous and. The consideration that Mr. I accordingly confined. As Profes- . sor Borring has done much, in the way of dissemi- . Danish among the French. French language amongst his. I have humbly endeavoured, in. English in Denmark, but also the knowledge of. Danish in England ; and if these very humble efforts. YOUR ROYAL. MAJESTY'S most August as well as most compe- . How scanty and unsatisfactory and uncertain is. Indus westward to. Atlantic, because so few of them were known. Greeks and the Romans! Schneider published his Danish Grammar for. Englishmen, during which time no other. English, to describe the. Danish in a more satisfactory. English learner in acquiring. Literature greatly enlarged. But even for. the time when it was composed, Capt. Schneiders. Grammar icas a very imperfect one; for besides. Danish. words, and the utter tastelessness in the arrange- . Still, if the language itself. X Flt. EFACE. This system, how- . Grammar of one and the same. That which I have here adopted is, for. Icelan- . dic, as also of the Frisic and the Anglosaxon. Grammars which I have published. The internal. structure of all these, and indeed also of the other. Gothic stock, appears to be. Danish. than in the ancient idioms; and it may afford an. But even. to those who merely study the language , in order. Gnmimar; for although. Grammar offer. merely some loose or detached remarks, together. Grammar. John. Grant in his Grammar of the English language. In the syntax, I fear, I. Hansen. of Christiania has published a separate treatise. Danish Grammar. Perhaps also. In order to be short in the notes, I. XII PREFACE. 1. 8. J command, belongs to the first conjugal- . Those who wish for a. Danish and Norwegian- ). Throughout the kingdom of Norway, the Danish language. Several natives, however, since the union with Sweden. Norwegian, not. is it to be denied that, even before the celebrated Holberg, the. Norwegians had an honorable share in cultivating and improving it. Denmark is an histori- . From hence it was propagated to Norway. Luther's Reformation , when Literal tire. S1. 4 , may find sufficient informa- . Nyerup's . But a book which presents a view of. Lite- . rature, together with copious specimens of their. Danish. should be provided, is K. Syv wrote several works on this sub- . He also wrote a. Grammar and a Syntax in separate volumes. Hence no attempt was ever. Scriptures into Norse, nor any polemical. Norwegian after that time. This was the first regu- . Grammar of the Danish Langu- . Bloch published a Grammar for. Orthography. in which he differs from his predecessors , admit- . Guldberg, Besides these there were. Thonboe's and Benzien's are the most re- . I began the work. Schneider'' s work entirely out of sight, as. If, after all these changes, the text of. As the reader may demand a proof of this hard censure. I shall. merely quote the first line, where the author states that there are. Danish alphabet, though the large table immedia- . The pronunciation of the first let- . A, is thus described: ''Like the broad A in all^ wall. Thorpe, who kindh) undertook the. PART I. The former of these two columns gives the names of the letters. Danish spelling: the latter gives the same names spelled. English way, so as to lead the English learner to the right. Danish pronunciation of these names. Remarks on the alphabet. Syv, as also by the learned Prof. Bloch in his Danske Sprogl. It is how- . ever still used by some, but always followed by *, never by u in. Danish book, as: Qvinde, beqvem, Qvarter, . Sobel, sire, . Rask omit- . I have reinstated it, since it is. Mr. Rask inserted A which always has been used by the. Swedes, as the twenty fourth letter, in his alphabet and justified. Petersen, also by the author of these pages, and several. At all events the sound is simple, and conti- . So also in kindred dialects, as Ving. Whereas da is sometimes long a, sometimes even to. Haarlem, Aaron, Kanaan, Knud Da- . Danish Prince. As the learner however will. The distinction pro- . ORTHOGRAPHY. There are however some few excep- . St. But in. Ord, a word; Nordenj the North, the 6 is long. Med. ORTHOGRAPHY. Piil, arrow, but livid. Viin, wine, but min, mine, the pronun- . As there is little. O for the open or slender, as in French. There are no diphthongs in Danish, but aj, ej, oj. Qfo even though written by some ai, ei, oi, ui, 6i. French. oi, ui, or the like, e. Per- . haps however the j is a little softer after the wovels. Even after g and k it is. Engl, flat th in bathe. Fader. After I, n, r, it is. Sag, cause, affair, con- . Sometimes after e, 6 it is pronounced. Engl y cons.), e. Hjelp, help. aid, pron. Valfisk; hvid. white, pron. The rebounding is the abrupt shortened, but it must. Danish, and very difficult to foreigners. But many others. have the running accent, as: han, he; rank, slim, tall. Ven, friend. Fa'r, father, Mo'r, mother. But usually it is thrown away. As. the Italians write tesauro, the Spaniards accion, the French. Filosof, philosopher; and it is. Monark, Mekdnikus, Maskine & c. Matematiker, Mathematician. It is very common also. The. other consonants are usually referred to the vowel fol- . Dage, days, from Dag. Saald (Said), a sieve, be- . It is however ack- . Danish w ord, which has ka, ko, ku, ga, go, gu. At one time it was attempted to introduce the German. England, and in many English books printed in the reign. George 1 and George II the nouns often have capital initials. Thus it is evident. Germans with their imitators the Danes und Norwegians. The. distinction between verbs and nouns alledged to be affected by. Being derived from. Lande, countries, Stole, chairs. Land- et, the country, Stol- en, the chair. Lande- ne, the countries, Stole- ne, the chairs. Denmark; det smukke London, fine London; det. Jerusalem, the new Jerusalem; Paris & c. Guld, gold. Selv, silver; Jcern, iron; Bly, lead; et stort E, a capital. E ; at skrive En et X for et V ', literally : to write one. X for a U (meaning the Roman number V) , or ten. To the common gender belong 1) most names. Compounds take the gender of the last part. Birketr. Except et Bog- . Maaltid, a meal ; et Vidnesbyrd, a testi- . Stav, en Tid, en Byrd. Brud, a breach, en Brud, a bride. Buk, a bow (inclination of the body), en Buk, a He- goat. Digt, a poem, en Digt, a fiction, tale. Flor, a gauze. At tage noget efter Bogstaven, to. Et Sted, a place, was likewise. The verb fblge is not only to folloic, but also to attend, ac- . Molbech makes Trold of the common gender (e. In Icelandic, however. Troll is neuter, and such, no doubt the gender ought to be also. Danish, when the word denotes a giant, or ogre; but when. Danish poets to make it: en. Trold. En Taage, a mist, is called et Taag, by the. Funen, hence in the culti- . Taaget, literally: to. Of the declension of nouns. Forholds former) in each, viz. The simple order contains all. The former follows one invariable rule in forming. The following table may serve. Simple order. Moller; Fru Skibsted, Mrs. There are. however several exceptions to this rule, as the word. Kammerherre, Chamberlain, and female titles m- inde, as. Grevinde, countess, < & c. Thus also of Menneske, man, instead. Menneskets, we say Menneskens. Menneskens Son, the son of man. Menneskens Born, mankind. Hertug dommene. instead of Hertug dommerne*. It can not, surely, be established as a general rule, that the. Ojnene, Ojnenes*. Et . The complex order*. This order must be divided into three classes accor- . As examples let us take et Dyr, an animal. Dag, a day; en Sag, a thing. Ex, of the 1st class. Kar, a vessel, def. Karr- enc; et Lam. Lamm- et, < & c. Blokke, & c; en Hat, a hat, pi. Hatte. en Top, a top, pi. Toppe: en Straf, punishment, pi. Of the. 3d class en Ned, a nut, pi. Nsdder; en Almanak, a cal- . Almanakker; en Fabrik, a manufacture p. L. Fabrikker; en Ven, a friend, pi. Venner. When a word of the com. Fejl- ene, Thus. also en Sild, a herring; en Kr. Likewise. when a word of the neut, gend. Land- el^ Land- ets, plur. Lande- ne ; thus also et Bord. Bordet ; et Hus (Huus), a house, Hus- et ; et Bj. Bevis- . er- ne; et Begreb, a conception, idea., Begrebet; et Papir. Papiret; et Bibliotek, a library, Biblioteket; et. Universitet, a University, Universitetet; et Venskab, a. Venskabet; et Hoved, a head, Hovedet; et. Hul, a hole, def. Huller- ne>. For the other remarks that may be required we. Brud, a breach; et Bud. Liv, a life; et Hik, a. Molbech writes Stob> ed. The second class*. There are some primitive neuters of this class, as. Brev, a letter, pi. Breve; et Blad, a leaf, Blade; et. Skib, a vessel, Skibe; et Bad, a bath, Bade; et Vand. Vande; et Skab, a cupboard, Skabe; but by far. Baad. a boat, (Icel bdtr), plur, Baade; en Krop, a body (Icel. Love; en. Sol, a sun, Sole. Some dissyllables in el, er, suffer a contraction in. Kamre. def, Kammer- et, pi. Kamre- ne; et Offer, a sacrifice, pi. Fingre ; en Hammer, a hammer, pi. Hamre ; en. Engel, an angel, pi. Engle; en Himmel, heaven, sky, pi. Mbdre . en Broder, pi. Brodre ; en Datter (Dotter), pi, Dotlre*. The third class. contains some few primitive neuters, as et Tr. Tojer; et Sted, a place. Steder; and all derivatives in - i, eri, as et Parti, a. Partier; et Bryggeri, a brewhouse, p. L. Bryggerier; et Bogtrykkeri, a printing- office, pi.
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