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C1 · Advanced

Word Formation & Roots

How Danish builds new words using productive endings and classical roots.

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Words & phrases
107
Lessons
2
Conversations
1
Readings
1

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Words you’ll make your own.

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

English
  1. a presence
  2. a housing development
  3. a change
  4. a payment
  5. a company
  6. a property
  7. a swindle
  8. legible
  9. edible
  10. Nordic
  11. childish
  12. greenish
  13. reddish
  14. an anachronism
  15. anarchy
  16. a cacophony
  17. a chronology
  18. autonomy
  19. philanthropy
  20. misanthropy
  21. a polyglot
  22. a prologue
  23. an epilogue
  24. an antonym
  25. phonetics
  26. forgetful
  27. forgetfulness
  28. defiant
  29. defiance
  30. to defy
  31. drowsy
  32. drowsiness
  33. complacent
  34. complacence
  35. to ignite
  36. ignition
  37. to occur
  38. an occurrence
  39. motherhood
  40. priesthood
  41. parenthood
  42. tolerable
  43. washable
  44. indispensable
  45. irrepressible
  46. fruity
  47. sugary
  48. oily
  49. fatty
  50. rubberlike
  51. childlike
  52. nameless
  53. greenish-yellow
  54. boyish
  55. girlish
  56. strategic
  57. magical
  58. musical
  59. a conformist
  60. nonconformity
  61. to consist of
  62. durability, resistance; constancy
  63. a consultancy
  64. consultative
  65. contextual
  66. a cancellation, a deregistration
  67. deregulation
  68. a descendant
  69. a descriptor
  70. a connector
  71. a financier
  72. a liberator
  73. a logician
  74. deniable
  75. collapsible
  76. specifiable
  77. unattainable
  78. unapproachable
  79. unidentifiable
  80. expansive
  81. invisible
  82. chronological
  83. translucent
  84. luminous
  85. vacuous
  86. benevolent
  87. malevolent
  88. malnourished
  89. apathetic
  90. interdisciplinary
  91. intravenous
  92. transgender
  93. a forerunner
  94. foresight
  95. a merchant
  96. a contestant
  97. an alteration
  98. multiplication
  99. guidance
  100. to appease
  101. to conceal
  102. to diffuse
  103. diffusion
  104. incredible
  105. credibility
  106. transportation
  107. to scribble

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2 Lessons
  1. Lesson 1

    Word Formation and Roots

  2. Lesson 2

    Taking a Compound Apart

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