Skip to content

Hejly is now on the App Store. Take your Danish practice with you.

Download for iOS
hejly.

B1 · Intermediate

Sea & Coast

Danish vocabulary for talking about the sea, the coast, islands, tides and life by the water.

Start learning this unit

One account. Your progress, on the web and in the app.

Words & phrases
29
Lessons
2
Conversations
1
Readings
1

A preview of what you’ll master

Words you’ll make your own.

Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.

English
  1. an ocean
  2. a strait
  3. a reef
  4. high tide
  5. low tide
  6. a current
  7. a horizon
  8. sand
  9. a coastline
  10. surf (breakers)
  11. a sand dune
  12. a cove (inlet)
  13. a pier (breakwater)
  14. a bathing jetty
  15. a skerry (rock near the surface)
  16. a sandbank
  17. a sound (narrow strait)
  18. a shipwreck
  19. salt water
  20. seaweed
  21. shallow (of water)
  22. dead calm (of the sea)
  23. rough (of the sea)
  24. seasick
  25. to be washed ashore (run aground)
  26. to drop anchor
  27. to snorkel
  28. at sea
  29. marine

Danish words, pronunciation, and practice are waiting inside your learning account.

Understand the why

Your lessons, step by step.

2 Lessons
  1. Lesson 1

    Seas and Coasts

  2. Lesson 2

    A Walk at Low Tide

Where this unit fits

Courses with this unit.

Your next conversation starts here

Make these words part of your Danish.

Create your Hejly account to start learning, hear Danish pronunciation, and build confidence with practice that fits your day.

Start learning this unit

One account. Your progress, on the web and in the app.