B2 · Upper Intermediate
Birth & Bereavement
Understand common language around childbirth and bereavement, with separate sections for maternity care and funeral arrangements.
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- Words & phrases
- 44
- 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.
- a delivery room
- a contraction
- to have your water break
- amniotic fluid
- an amniocentesis
- a breech position
- an afterbirth
- a birth weight
- a breast pump
- an abortion
- a catheter
- a death certificate
- an obituary notice
- a coffin
- a hearse
- a funeral service, usually before cremation
- a cremation
- an urn
- a gravestone
- to be buried
- a eulogy
- an heir
- a grieving process
- a womb
- infertility
- a trimester
- premature
- a miscarriage
- an epidural
- a corpse
- a morgue
- a chapel; a mortuary chapel
- cremated
- an embryo
- an episiotomy
- a fetus
- an obstetrician
- a placenta
- prenatal
- forceps
- an incubator
- morning sickness
- an umbilical cord
- a burial
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
Birth and Bereavement
- Lesson 2
Returning After Family Changes
Where this unit fits
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