Product Description

A complete reference guide to modern Danish, concentrating on the real patterns in use today. This Grammar will be the standard reference for years to come for the learner and user of Danish, irrespective of level.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #105446 in Books
• Published on: 1995-03-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 640 pages

From the Back Cover
Routledge Grammars

Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Danish grammar.
It presents a fresh and accessible description of the language, concentrating on the real patterns of use in modern Danish. The book will be the standard reference work for years to come.
The Grammar is an essential reference source for the learner and user of Danish, irrespective of level. It is ideal for use in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types.
The volume is organized to promote a thorough understanding of Danish grammar. It offers a stimulating analysis of the complexities of the language, and provides full and clear explanations. Throughout, the emphasis is on Danish as used by present-day native speakers.
An extensive index, numbered paragraphs, cross-references and summary charts provide readers with easy access to the information they require.
Features include:
detailed treatment of the common grammatical structures and parts of speech
extensive ex

Customer Reviews

This IS the Danish language
This book, is a far as I know, the only book in English that covers every aspect of Danish grammer you will ever need to learn Dansh. Don't buy this book if you want a few phrases buy this if you want to really learn the Danish - it is the best out there.

Incredibly important book for serious students of Danish
If you want to understand the language of Danish -- and Danes are sticklers for grammar, both Danish and English -- then you must have this book or a Danish nun as a teacher. The cross-cultural equivalent of Warriner's English; everything but sentence diagramming. Not quite Strunk & White's Elements of Style, but I need its 600-plus pages. The terminology is "rather" British (see "copulative conjunctions"), yet it even instructs how to properly form colloquial sentences -- "so" colloquial that a Danish friend to whom I had written thought I must have made a mistake because the sentence structure I had used, as a beginner, seemed to arcanely correct. In short, this book is outwardly dull but extremely useful.

Great for serious study
This isn't a book for weekend tourists. This is for those who want in-depth knowledge of the language, say foreigners who want their business correspondence to be written in flawless Danish, or higher-level second language students aiming for excellent scores. There are no quick-quizzes or teach-yourself exercises. It is a comprehensive collection of rules (and exceptions to these) that serve as the foundation for the language.

A lot of Danish language books tend to avoid discussing grammar altogether, and focus instead on skills like social conversation, pronunciation, or vocabulary for daily living. That's a great approach too, but at some point, serious students will look for a firm scaffold on which to build new knowledge. This is an excellent reference for such students.