B1 · Intermediate
Sea & Coast
Danish vocabulary for talking about the sea, the coast, islands, tides and life by the water.
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- 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.
- an ocean
- a strait
- a reef
- high tide
- low tide
- a current
- a horizon
- sand
- a coastline
- surf (breakers)
- a sand dune
- a cove (inlet)
- a pier (breakwater)
- a bathing jetty
- a skerry (rock near the surface)
- a sandbank
- a sound (narrow strait)
- a shipwreck
- salt water
- seaweed
- shallow (of water)
- dead calm (of the sea)
- rough (of the sea)
- seasick
- to be washed ashore (run aground)
- to drop anchor
- to snorkel
- at sea
- marine
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Seas and Coasts
- Lesson 2
A Walk at Low Tide
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