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After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

• Talk about the royal family
• Use the word resp
• Distinguish between possessive pronouns
• Talk about tests and exams

When you talk about the royals, use the following titles:

When you speak to the royalty, be formal and say:

"Your highness" is used whether it is a King or a Queen you speak to:

A person can be both responsible (good at taking care of things and doing them properly) - and responsible for something.

Notice that the word responsible is an adjective and therefore declines like one.

In the 3rd person singular, you use sit, sin og sine when they point back to the subject in the same sentence: 

• Peter kysser sin kone (his own wife)
• Peter kysser hans kone (not his own wife)

• Sin is used if the article of the subject is en:
  

• Sit is used if the article of the subject is et:
  

• Sine is used in the plural:
  

Hans (his) or hendes (hers) is used if the pronoun does not refer to the subject of the same main clause.

Example: "Rasmus bor med hans familie." (Rasmus lives with his family). 

The English translation is identical to the previous exercise, but in this case the Danish sentence means that Rasmus lives with someone else's family.

Sin, sit and sine will never occur as the subject of a sentence.

The plural forms are not all that different from English, so try to remember:

Like so many other words, the word tjek has entered the Danish language and has been adapted. It is pronounced like the English word, used as the English word, but grammatically it acts according to the Danish rules:

The way you use check in English, may sometimes be translated directly:

In Danish you can være tjekket, which means that you are cool. It refers either to your clothing or to the way you act:

Quizzes, tests and exams are about testing a person's knowledge or abilities, usually within a limited area.

A quiz or test may be taken at any time, but an exam requires a more formal procedure.

If you take classes in Danish, you will be taking both tests and exams.

A test or exam can be oral or written.

Most, if not all, courses in schools, universities or other places will be completed with an exam.

An exam or test may be difficult:

A test or exam may also be easy:

You can diversify just how easy or difficult a test or an exam was:

You can diversify just how easy or difficult a test or an exam was:

At the language centers in Denmark you have to sign up in order to take a test.

You may either pass or fail a test, but sometimes tests are graded: