🇩🇰 The Nearly Danish Dame | Brooke 🇺🇸 on Instagram: "Ever wondered why so many Danish towns end in -rød or -drup? The answer goes all the way back to the Middle Ages -- and oftentimes all the way back to the Viking Age, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. Back then, settlements often described the land. Although we know rød to be the color red in modern Danish, that rød comes from Indo-European, Latin and Greek -- words meaning rusty, ruddy -- the color red. But the ending to place name

Danish.with.Jager on Instagram: "One of the biggest traps when learning Danish? 勞 So many words carry more than one meaning… sometimes they’re close, and sometimes they’re worlds apart.  A single word can mean one thing in one context and something totally different in another. No wonder learners are left wondering: “Did I just understand… or completely misunderstand?”  That’s the beauty (and the headache) of Danish – it keeps you on your toes at all times."