• melroy
    link
    fedilink
    222 hours ago

    ahha its also used in Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. :D

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      318 hours ago

      The languages are often comparable, we share some of the same sounds; the letters are a little different, but sound the same. In Danish “Æ” resembles Swedish/Finnish/Estonian “Ä”.

      While Danish have “Å” it is sounds a little different

      To give you an example where the letter “Æ” makes sense, could be in the word “exactly”. It sounds like it should have been spelled “Æxactly” because it’s not really a true “E” sound. It really is just A+E and is kinda pronounced that way. :-)

      • melroy
        link
        fedilink
        114 hours ago

        Hehe in Dutch the word “exactly” would be pronounced ‘ikzaaklie’ in Dutch, but that doesn’t help you either haha. Meaning the ‘e’ is more a ‘i’. The Dutch word for exactly is actually “precies”.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          139 minutes ago

          Lol the pronunciation of ikzaaklie, does sound of how we say it - our word for it is Præcis. I’ve been to Holland a couple of times and sometimes I understand what you guys are saying, sometimes definitely not. But I imagine Dutch is actually not far from our language 🍻