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Not quite similar, but related.
German is only similar to Danish in some degree (once you know it), but apart from some individual basic words ( being a Germanic language) and some more complex borrowed but now rather disguised words, Danish - along with its close relatives Swedish & Norwegian - is a rather different language than German. And therefore they are not mutually intelligible to the untrained ears, unless you have grown up in the border area and been exposed to both languages via TV for instance ( then you can easily see many cognates and likenesses in some parts of basic vocabulary ).
German grammar is far more complex than that of Danish, which has been simplified along similar lines to those of English grammar.
( e.g. same verb for every person & number, which E nearly has now for most verbs, and no special article for each case (only personal pronouns have
cases! ) - genitive is the "same" as in E etc. )
No akward "backward" subordinate clauses in Danish ( verb last! ), as in English, unlike in German.
Basic Danish words are usually much closer to their English cognates
than their German ditto - or the equivalent German words are completely unrelated.
For instance:
E D G
give = give vs. geben
take = tage vs. nehmen
have = have vs. haben
hope = håbe [ho-be!] vs. hoffe
hate = hade vs. hassen
hold = hold(e) vs. halten
go = gå [go!] vs. gehen
can = kan vs. können
will = vil vs. wollen
shall = skal vs. sollen
are (+am & is ) = er [air] vs. bin/ bist / ist / sind, seid/ sind
drink = drik(ke) vs. trinken
smile = smile [smeel-e] vs. lächlen ( ~ laugh)
dream = drøm(me) [droem-me] = träumen
tree = træ vs. Baum (!)
door = dør [doer] vs. Tür
window = vindue [vin-doo] vs. Fenster (!)
father / mother / broder / sister / son / daughter =
fader [fath-er!] / moder [moth-er!] / broder [broth-er!] /
søster [soester], søn [soen], datter
vs.
Vater [fA-ter] / Mutter [moot-ter], Bruder [broo-der], Schwester (!),
Son, Tochter
eye = øje [oy-e! ] vs. Auge
ear = øre [oer-e] vs. Ohr
cold = kold vs. kalt
warm = varm vs. warm (!)
hot = hed vs. heiss
thirsty = tørstig [tirs-teegh] = durstich
open = åben[o-ben!] vs. "öffen"
good = god vs. gut
deep = dyb vs. Tief
little = lille vs. klein (!)
already = allerede (!) vs. bereits
again = igen [ee-gain] vs. weider
over = over vs. über
under = under vs. unter
up = op [up!] vs. auf
from = fra vs. von / aus
out = ud vs. auss
after = efter vs. nach
I / me / my | mine = jeg [yaigh!] / mig / min vs. Ich / mich / mein
he / him / his / him = han / ham (!) / hans / ham vs. er / ihn / sein/ ihm
we / us / our(s) = vi [ve] / os [us!], vor(es) vs. wir, uns, unser
they, them , theirs = de [dee] / dem (!), deres (!) vs. Sie, ihn, seine
Danish and German are both Germanic languages, so they share some similarities in vocabulary and grammar. However, they are not mutually intelligible due to differences in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Danish is also influenced by the Scandinavian language family, setting it further apart from German.
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