Nul til ti

Learn nul, en/et, to, tre, fire, fem, seks, syv, otte, ni, ti.

Say en nøgle but et hus: one agrees with the noun’s gender.

For a phone number, read the digits clearly; et is a natural digit reading.

Ask Hvor mange …? with a countable plural noun.

Elleve til tyve / hellere

Learn the separate forms elleve to nitten and tyve.

In numbers above twenty, the units come first: enogtyve, toogtyve.

Say Jeg vil hellere have te when you prefer tea to something else. Jeg behøver ikke morgenmad means that breakfast is unnecessary, not forbidden.

Toogtredive kroner

Danish tens include tredive, fyrre, halvtreds, tres, halvfjerds, firs, halvfems.

Learn these as whole words; do not translate English tens piece by piece. Units precede tens: syvogtyve means twenty-seven.

Use en krone and to kroner.

Ask Hvad koster …?; the verb is unchanged for plural objects.

Meget / mange / lidt / nogle

Use mange for a countable plural and meget for an amount: mange æbler, meget fisk, meget mælk. Nogle means some countable things; noget means some amount or one unspecified thing. Lidt is a small amount.

After a measure, the noun is plain: et kilo ost, to kilo æbler.

Med / uden / selv

Use med for with and uden for without: te med mælk uden sukker. Selv emphasises who does something: Jeg bestiller selv. Heller ikke adds a negative fact; it does not replace også in a positive sentence.

Read prices and change with i alt and tilbage.