Danish grammar is the study of grammar in the Danish language.

Nouns

There are two genders of nouns in Danish: Common and Neuter. The common nouns use the en particle and the neuter ones use et.

Pronouns

Verbs

The verb forms in Danish have six distinct forms, as shown in the chart below.

      Non-finite forms
Infinitive             (at) vente      (to wait)
Present participle     ventende   (waiting)
Past participle        ventet     (waited)

      Finite forms
Present tense          venter     
Past tense             ventede
Imperative             vent

Verbs do not vary according to person or number.

                    Singular                    Plural
1st person         jeg venter (I wait)         vi venter (we wait)
2nd person         du/De venter (you wait)     I venter (you wait)
3rd person         han venter (he waits)       de venter (they wait)
                   hun venter (she waits)
                   den/det venter (it waits)

Tenses

Conjugation of verb tenses are divided into three groups. The first group, so called weak verbs, indicate the past tense and participle by adding suffixes. The second, called strong verbs, indicate the forms by means of vowel changes. Another group of verbs simply drops the ending to indicate a past tense. There are also a number of irregular verbs, which do not follow any of these patterns.

The future tense is indicated by the word skal; in questions, vil is usually used. In the perfect tense, the word har is placed before a verb's past participle. In certain words implying movement, however, er is used instead. Skal can also be used as a future imperative.

Numerals

The numbers from one to twenty in Danish are: en, to, tre, fire, fem, seks, syv, otte, ni, ti, elleve, tolv, tretten, fjorten, femten, seksten, sytten, atten, nitten and tyve. Counting above forty is in part based on a base 20 number system, called vigesimal. This is unlike Swedish and Norwegian, both of which use a decimal system.

Adjectives

Adverbs

Prepositions

Syntax

Word order