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After completing this lesson you will be able to:

• Ask about a person's health
• Say you are ill
• Say where it hurts

When someone sneezes, you say prosit:

When someone is sick, you wish them a good recovery:

If someone tells you that people in their family are sick, you may wish them a good recovery:

Danish uses both ok and okay. It can be said as letters, or the whole word:

If you want to know if a person is okay, ask:

If you can see a person is feeling bad, you can ask:

If a person tells you that they are feeling bad, you can ask:

If you want to help the person, ask:

If anyone asks if you are well, you can say:

You can also say if someone in your family is sick:

Both adjectives rask and syg conjugate according to the plural rule :

If you are asked, say where it hurts by putting the right body part in the sentence:

If either you or a member of your familiy is ill, you may have to call work and report sick:

Anyone who receives a residence permit and a CPR number can receive Danish health insurance. You get a small yellow card as proof that you are justified.

Denmark has a very comprehensive health system that includes general practitioners (family doctor), specialists, hospitals, health services, free dentistry for children and more. The public health insurance in Denmark is financed via taxes and means that many things in this connection are "free." This applies for example to visits to the doctor and admission to the hospital.

If you need help, call the emergency call center at 112

If you would like a recommendation for a doctor, you can ask:

In Danish there are two words for hospital: hospital and sygehus (sick house).

If you have an accident, you may go to the skadestue (emergency room):

For example, if you are a blood donor:

If a person is in the hospital, he or she has been indlagt (admitted):