Danish Adverbs
Learning the Danish Adverbs is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Danish language. But first we need to know what the role of Adverbs is in the structure of the grammar in Danish.
Danish adverbs are part of speech. Generally they're words that modify any part of language other than a noun. Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives (including numbers), clauses, sentences and other adverbs. Here are some examples:
| English Adverbs | Danish Adverbs |
| adverbs | adverbier |
| I read a book sometimes | Jeg læste en bog tider |
| I will never smoke | Jeg vil aldrig ryge |
| are you alone? | er du alene? |
As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Adverbs in Danish has a logical pattern. Locate the Adverbs above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Dansk.
List of Adverbs in Danish
Below is a list of the Adverbs of time place manner and frequency in Danish placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Danish vocabulary.
| English Adverbs | Danish Adverbs |
| adverbs of time | adverbier af tid |
| yesterday | i går |
| today | i dag |
| tomorrow | i morgen |
| now | nu |
| then | Derefter |
| later | senere |
| tonight | i aften |
| right now | lige nu |
| last night | sidste nat |
| this morning | her til morgen |
| next week | næste uge |
| already | allerede |
| recently | nyligt |
| lately | sidst |
| soon | snart |
| immediately | straks |
| still | stadig |
| yet | endnu |
| ago | siden |
| |
| adverbs of place | adverbier af sted |
| here | her |
| there | der |
| over there | derovre |
| everywhere | overalt |
| anywhere | overalt |
| nowhere | intetsteds |
| home | hjem |
| away | væk |
| out | ud |
| |
| adverbs of manner | adverbier af måde |
| very | meget |
| quite | helt |
| pretty | smuk |
| really | virkelig |
| fast | hurtigt |
| well | godt |
| hard | hårdt |
| quickly | hurtigt |
| slowly | langsomt |
| carefully | omhyggeligt |
| hardly | næppe |
| barely | knap |
| mostly | det meste |
| almost | næsten |
| absolutely | absolut |
| together | sammen |
| alone | alene |
| |
| adverbs of frequency | adverbier af frekvens |
| always | altid |
| frequently | ofte |
| usually | sædvanligvis |
| sometimes | undertiden |
| occasionally | lejlighedsvis |
| seldom | sjældent |
| rarely | sjældent |
| never | aldrig |
Adverbs of time place manner and frequency have a very important role in Danish, therefore they need very special attention. Once you're done with the Dansk Adverbs, you might want to check the rest of our Danish lessons here: Learn Danish. Don't forget to bookmark this page.