🇬🇧 → 🇩🇰
How easy is Danish for English speakers?
Going from English to Danish (Dansk) has a composite linguistic distance of 42% (curated lexical data). Below is the dimension-by-dimension breakdown.
42% distance
FSI Cat I (Easiest) — 600–750 hours
Lexical similarity
45%
Shared vocabulary, cognates, and loanwords.
Grammatical distance
72%
Morphology, syntax, word order, cases.
Phonological similarity
0%
Shared sounds and phoneme inventory.
Writing-system match
100%
Latin → Latin
Genealogical kinship
70%
Indo-European ↔ Indo-European
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Sample sentences side-by-side
How everyday sentences look in both languages:
🇬🇧 English
The dog and the cat sleep in the warm house.
🇩🇰 Danish
Hunden og katten sover i det varme hus.
🇬🇧 English
He works in the garden every morning in summer.
🇩🇰 Danish
Han arbejder i haven hver morgen om sommeren.
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