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After completing this lesson you will be able to:

• Say what time it is.
• Say what date it is.
• Ask when a person can meet.
• Ask for and give contact information.

Anna and Bob are still at the café.

Notice that they are talking about what they work as. Bob says he is a journalist and Anna says that she is a nurse.

Before leaving, Bob asks Anna where he can buy a map of Vejle.

Danes try to be punctual and rarely go anywhere without an appointment. If they can see they are late, they call or send a text message.

The names of the days come from Nordic mythology. Wednesday is named after Odin, Thursday after the thunder god Thor and Saturday after the old word løgh that means bath, that is bathing day.

Danish has no special grammatical time for the future. Instead, there are two common ways to incline the verb when talking about the future:

1. You use present tense: jeg besøger museet i morgen

2. You use a modal verb, typically shall (literally meaning have to). Jeg skal på museum i morgen.

When Danes use the days of the week together with the "future tense", the preposition på is used:

However, Danes do not say på weekenden but i weekenden:

You can ask about meeting times in general:

Or you can ask more directly:

When you want to say thank you for something, you say tak for+ the thing you want to thank for, in the definite form:

There are several ways to say something is good or positive:

You can also say something is not good:

Tell Anna det lyder hyggeligt