72-406: The Kanneworff House ( Danish : Kanneworffs Hus), situated at the acute-angled corner of Bredgade and Store Strandstræde , next to Nyhavn , is the smallest and oldest building on Kongens Nytorv in central Copenhagen , Denmark. The modest dimensions and unassuming design bear testament to the fact that its construction in fact predates that of the square on which it is now located.The building
144-403: A walk-out basement . The front wing is five bays wide and rendered in a pale grey colour. The facade is finished by a meander frieze under the windows on the first floor and a dentillated cornice under the roof. The gateway furthest to the right (south) is topped by a transom window and next to it is an old cast iron sign from a klein smith. In the third bay is a cellar entrance topped by
216-429: A "difficult language to learn, acquire and understand", and some evidence shows that children are slower to acquire the phonological distinctions of Danish compared with other languages. The grammar is moderately inflective with strong (irregular) and weak (regular) conjugations and inflections. Nouns, adjectives, and demonstrative pronouns distinguish common and neutral gender. Like English, Danish only has remnants of
288-499: A Neoclassical hood mould supported by corbels . A six-bay perpendicular side wing extends from the rear side of the building. It is again attached to a number of other secondary buildings, surrounding a narrow, cobbled courtyard. All the facades are plastered in an iron vitriol yellow colour. The building (including the six-bay side wing) was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1950. The other buildings in
360-663: A cross wing. The building in Bredgade (then Norgesgade) was attached to Titken's building by a long garden wall. In 1754, Titken bought a property at the corner of Bredgade and Fredericiagade. The substantially larger Titken House (now Bredgade 60) was constructed for him in 1754–1756. The property was later owned by ironmonger Andreas Lorentz Prom (1743–1797). He was married to Kistine Olivarius (1754–1836), daughter of provost Johan Holgersen Olivarius (1721–1774) and Susanne Margrethe Henriksdatter Hatting (1728–1757). They lived in
432-486: A female French teacher ( Francoise ), two chamber maids ( kammerjomfru and jomfru ), a housekeeper, a male servant and a maid. The property was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 66 in St. Ann's East Quarter. It was still owned by Peter AndreasValentin at that time. The present building on the site was constructed in 1833-34 for merchant Wulff Philip Heyman (1794–1866) and Sophie Abrahamson. The large property No. 66
504-561: A former case system , particularly in the pronouns. Unlike English, it has lost all person marking on verbs. Its word order is V2 , with the finite verb always occupying the second slot in the sentence. Danish is a Germanic language of the North Germanic branch . Other names for this group are the Nordic or Scandinavian languages. Along with Swedish, Danish descends from the Eastern dialects of
576-516: A literary language. Also in this period, Danish began to take on the linguistic traits that differentiate it from Swedish and Norwegian, such as the stød , the voicing of many stop consonants, and the weakening of many final vowels to /e/. The first printed book in Danish dates from 1495, the Rimkrøniken ( Rhyming Chronicle ), a history book told in rhymed verses. The first complete translation of
648-506: A maid. Charlothe Nielsen, a widow laundry woman, resided on the ground floor of the side wing with her two children (aged two and three) and a 33-year-old unmarried woman (needlework) with a one-year-old son. Martin Halberg, a master painter, resided on the first floor of the side wing with his wife Christiane Broslius and their three children (aged six to 13). Thor Hoff, a master tailor, resided on
720-683: A number of Danes remained as a minority within German territories . After the occupation of Denmark by Germany in World War II, the 1948 orthography reform dropped the German-influenced rule of capitalizing nouns, and introduced the letter ⟨å⟩ . Three 20th-century Danish authors have become Nobel Prize laureates in Literature : Karl Gjellerup and Henrik Pontoppidan (joint recipients in 1917) and Johannes V. Jensen (awarded 1944). With
792-478: A similarity in pronunciation, combined with the long tradition of having Danish as a written language, which has led to similarities in vocabulary. Among younger Danes, Copenhageners are worse at understanding Swedish than Danes from the provinces. In general, younger Danes are not as good at understanding the neighboring languages as the young in Norway and Sweden. The Danish philologist Johannes Brøndum-Nielsen divided
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#1732858278650864-573: A so-called multiethnolect in the urban areas, an immigrant Danish variety (also known as Perkerdansk ), combining elements of different immigrant languages such as Arabic, Turkish, and Kurdish, as well as English and Danish. Within the Danish Realm , Danish is the national language of Denmark and one of two official languages of the Faroe Islands (alongside Faroese ). There is a Faroese variant of Danish known as Gøtudanskt . Until 2009, Danish
936-600: A variant of Standard Danish, Southern Schleswig Danish , is spoken in the area. Since 2015, Schleswig-Holstein has officially recognized Danish as a regional language , just as German is north of the border. Furthermore, Danish is one of the official languages of the European Union and one of the working languages of the Nordic Council . Under the Nordic Language Convention , Danish-speaking citizens of
1008-407: A very large vowel inventory consisting of 27 phonemically distinctive vowels , and its prosody is characterized by the distinctive phenomenon stød , a kind of laryngeal phonation type . Due to the many pronunciation differences that set Danish apart from its neighboring languages, particularly the vowels, difficult prosody and "weakly" pronounced consonants, it is sometimes considered to be
1080-555: Is a North Germanic language from the Indo-European language family spoken by about six million people, principally in and around Denmark . Communities of Danish speakers are also found in Greenland , the Faroe Islands , and the northern German region of Southern Schleswig , where it has minority language status. Minor Danish-speaking communities are also found in Norway , Sweden ,
1152-700: Is a West Germanic language descended from Old English. Old Norse exerted a strong influence on Old English in the early medieval period. The shared Germanic heritage of Danish and English is demonstrated with many common words that are very similar in the two languages. For example, when written, commonly used Danish verbs, nouns, and prepositions such as have , over , under , for , give , flag , salt , and arm are easily recognizable to English speakers. Similarly, some other words are almost identical to their Scots equivalents, e.g. kirke (Scots kirk , i.e., 'church') or barn (Scots and northern English bairn , i.e. 'child'). In addition,
1224-430: Is its closest relative. East Germanic languages West Germanic languages Icelandic Faroese Norwegian Danish Swedish Approximately 2,000 uncompounded Danish words are derived from Old Norse and ultimately from Proto Indo-European . Of these 2,000, 1,200 are nouns, 500 are verbs and 180 are adjectives. Danish has also absorbed many loanwords , most of which were borrowed from Low German of
1296-436: The skarre-R , the uvular R sound ( [ʁ] ), began spreading through Denmark, likely through influence from Parisian French and German. It affected all of the areas where Danish had been influential, including all of Denmark, Southern Sweden, and coastal southern Norway. In the 18th century, Danish philology was advanced by Rasmus Rask , who pioneered the disciplines of comparative and historical linguistics, and wrote
1368-604: The Bible in Danish, the Bible of Christian II translated by Christiern Pedersen , was published in 1550. Pedersen's orthographic choices set the de facto standard for subsequent writing in Danish. From around 1500, several printing presses were in operation in Denmark publishing in Danish and other languages. In the period after 1550, presses in Copenhagen dominated the publication of material in
1440-562: The Late Middle Ages . Out of the 500 most frequently used Danish words, 100 are loans from Middle Low German; this is because Low German was the second official language of Denmark–Norway. In the 17th and 18th centuries, standard German and French superseded Low German influence, and in the 20th century, English became the main supplier of loanwords, especially after World War II . Although many old Nordic words remain, some were replaced with borrowed synonyms, for example æde (to eat)
1512-506: The Mansard roof . Another adaptation in 1904 moved the entrance to Bredgade. The House of Ambert is now based on the ground floor of the building. Copenhagen Amber Museum is located on the two upper floors ' Source Danish language Nordic Council Danish ( / ˈ d eɪ n ɪ ʃ / , DAY -nish ; endonym : dansk pronounced [ˈtænˀsk] , dansk sprog [ˈtænˀsk ˈspʁɔwˀ] )
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#17328582786501584-512: The Old Norse language ; Danish and Swedish are also classified as East Scandinavian or East Nordic languages. Scandinavian languages are often considered a dialect continuum , where no sharp dividing lines are seen between the different vernacular languages. Like Norwegian and Swedish, Danish was significantly influenced by Low German in the Middle Ages, and has been influenced by English since
1656-1053: The United States , Canada , Brazil , and Argentina . Along with the other North Germanic languages, Danish is a descendant of Old Norse , the common language of the Germanic peoples who lived in Scandinavia during the Viking Era . Danish, together with Swedish, derives from the East Norse dialect group , while the Middle Norwegian language (before the influence of Danish) and Norwegian Bokmål are classified as West Norse along with Faroese and Icelandic . A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian , and Swedish as "mainland (or continental ) Scandinavian", while Icelandic and Faroese are classified as "insular Scandinavian". Although
1728-532: The Zealand dialect Introductio ad lingvam Danicam puta selandicam ; and in 1685 the first Danish grammar written in Danish, Den Danske Sprog-Kunst ("The Art of the Danish Language") by Peder Syv . Major authors from this period are Thomas Kingo , poet and psalmist, and Leonora Christina Ulfeldt , whose novel Jammersminde ( Remembered Woes ) is considered a literary masterpiece by scholars. Orthography
1800-402: The introduction of the printing press , a standard language was developed which was based on the educated dialect of Copenhagen and Malmö . It spread through use in the education system and administration, though German and Latin continued to be the most important written languages well into the 17th century. Following the loss of territory to Germany and Sweden, a nationalist movement adopted
1872-579: The 9th century with the younger futhark . Possibly as far back as the seventh century, the common Norse language began to undergo changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, resulting in the appearance of two dialect areas, Old West Norse ( Norway and Iceland ) and Old East Norse ( Denmark and Sweden ). Most of the changes separating East Norse from West Norse started as innovations in Denmark, that spread through Scania into Sweden and by maritime contact to southern Norway. A change that separated Old East Norse (Runic Swedish/Danish) from Old West Norse
1944-577: The Danish language, and also started a period of homogenization, whereby the Copenhagen standard language gradually displaced the regional vernacular languages. Throughout the 19th century, Danes emigrated, establishing small expatriate communities in the Americas, particularly in the United States, Canada, and Argentina, where memory and some use of Danish remains today. After the Schleswig referendum in 1920 ,
2016-517: The Danish language. Herrer og Narre have frit Sprog . "Lords and jesters have free speech." Peder Syv , proverbs Following the first Bible translation, the development of Danish as a written language , as a language of religion, administration, and public discourse accelerated. In the second half of the 17th century, grammarians elaborated grammars of Danish, first among them Rasmus Bartholin 's 1657 Latin grammar De studio lingvæ danicæ ; then Laurids Olufsen Kock 's 1660 grammar of
2088-407: The Danish tongue." Heimskringla by Snorri Sturluson By the eighth century, the common Germanic language of Scandinavia, Proto-Norse , had undergone some changes and evolved into Old Norse . This language was generally called the "Danish tongue" ( Dǫnsk tunga ), or "Norse language" ( Norrœnt mál ). Norse was written in the runic alphabet , first with the elder futhark and from
2160-455: The Nordic countries have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable for any interpretation or translation costs. Lille Strandstr%C3%A6de 18 Lille Strandstræde 18 is a Neoclassical property situated off Sankt Annæ Plads in central Copenhagen , Denmark. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1950. The site
2232-688: The Old Norse word for "island". This monophthongization started in Jutland and spread eastward, having spread throughout Denmark and most of Sweden by 1100. Through Danish conquest, Old East Norse was once widely spoken in the northeast counties of England . Many words derived from Norse, such as "gate" ( gade ) for street, still survive in Yorkshire , the East Midlands and East Anglia, and parts of eastern England colonized by Danish Vikings . The city of York
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2304-600: The area, eventually outnumbering the Danish speakers. The political loss of territory sparked a period of intense nationalism in Denmark, coinciding with the so-called " Golden Age " of Danish culture. Authors such as N.F.S. Grundtvig emphasized the role of language in creating national belonging. Some of the most cherished Danish-language authors of this period are existential philosopher Søren Kierkegaard and prolific fairy tale author Hans Christian Andersen . The influence of popular literary role models, together with increased requirements of education did much to strengthen
2376-474: The building with four of his children, one Madame Brauensteinm her son Carl Brauenstein, 12-year-old Louise Wessel, a maid and a seemstress. Gustaw Georg Dalin, a shoemaker, resided in the building with his wife Anna Magrete Didrichsen, tneir three-year-old daughter and musician at the 1st Infantry Brigade Julius Braunstein, Niels Larsen, a barkeeper, resided in the basement with his wife Karen Kjerstine Kaasm their two children (aged one and three) and one maid. In
2448-414: The building with their two children (aged one and two), two male servants and two maids at the 1787 census. Prom undertook an adaptation of the building in the 1780s, adding an extra floor as well as a Mansard roof . He died on 16 January 1797. Kirstine Prom (née Olivarius) resided in the building with her four youngest children and one maid at the 1801 census. In the new cadastre of 1806, Prom's property
2520-585: The early 1840s, Jonas Collin sold the adjacent Collin House to the pastry chef Christian Frederik Bredo Grandjean. In the early 1850s, Grandjean tried to buy Kanneworff's house with the ambition of replacing both buildings with an imposing new corner building, but Kanneworff refused to sell it to him. Grandjean therefore ended up having to construct two separate buildings, one in Bredgade and one in Store Strandstræde. Lars Kanneworff died on 14 September 1859. He
2592-498: The exclusive use of rigsdansk , the High Copenhagen Standard, in national broadcasting, the traditional dialects came under increased pressure. In the 20th century, they have all but disappeared, and the standard language has extended throughout the country. Minor regional pronunciation variation of the standard language, sometimes called regionssprog ("regional languages") remain, and are in some cases vital. Today,
2664-451: The first English-language grammar of Danish. Literary Danish continued to develop with the works of Ludvig Holberg , whose plays and historical and scientific works laid the foundation for the Danish literary canon. With the Danish colonization of Greenland by Hans Egede , Danish became the administrative and religious language there, while Iceland and the Faroe Islands had the status of Danish colonies with Danish as an official language until
2736-412: The first floor of the side wing with his wife Sahra Wandstrøm and their two children (aged 11 and 13). Julius Nielsen, a cooper, resided on the second floor of the side wing with his wife Walborg Christensen. Lars Lynge, another cooper (widower), resided on the second floor of the side wing with his three children (aged four to 14). The large complex of buildings was home to a total of 126 residents at
2808-423: The ground floor and first floor with his six youngest children (aged five to 18) and one maid. The daughter and son-in-law Julie and Charel Friderich Glad resided on the second floor with the lodger Heinrich Peter Jacob Holm (ship captain).Laurits Hultmann, a sailor and shopkeeper, resided in the basement. The building was ewfurbished in 1841. It was home to 15 residents at the 1845 census. Lars Kannewarth resided in
2880-426: The history of Danish into a period from 800 AD to 1525 to be "Old Danish", which he subdivided into "Runic Danish" (800–1100), Early Middle Danish (1100–1350) and Late Middle Danish (1350–1525). Móðir Dyggva var Drótt, dóttir Danps konungs, sonar Rígs er fyrstr var konungr kallaðr á danska tungu . " Dyggvi 's mother was Drott, the daughter of king Danp, Ríg 's son, who was the first to be called king in
2952-407: The house on Kongens Nytorv, he was based on Vingårdstræde . Kanneworff's wife died on 3 July 1839, leaving him with seven children. His eldest daughter, Julie Albertha Nathalia Kannewortt(1821-1886), was shortly thereafter (21 September) married to Carl Friderich Glad (1803-1862), a ship captain. Lars Kanneworff's property was home to three households at the 1840 census. Lars Kanneworff resided on
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3024-424: The language as a token of Danish identity, and the language experienced a strong surge in use and popularity, with major works of literature produced in the 18th and 19th centuries. Today, traditional Danish dialects have all but disappeared, though regional variants of the standard language exist. The main differences in language are between generations, with youth language being particularly innovative. Danish has
3096-532: The language of the courts. Since 1997, public authorities have been obliged to follow the official spelling system laid out in the Orthography Law. In the 21st century, discussions have been held with a view to create a law that would make Danish the official language of Denmark. In addition, a noticeable community of Danish speakers is in Southern Schleswig , the portion of Germany bordering Denmark, and
3168-407: The major varieties of Standard Danish are High Copenhagen Standard, associated with elderly, well to-do, and well educated people of the capital, and low Copenhagen speech traditionally associated with the working class, but today adopted as the prestige variety of the younger generations. Also, in the 21st century, the influence of immigration has had linguistic consequences, such as the emergence of
3240-422: The mid-20th century. Moders navn er vort Hjertesprog, kun løs er al fremmed Tale. Det alene i mund og bog, kan vække et folk af dvale. "Mother's name is our hearts' tongue, only idle is all foreign speech It alone, in mouth or in book, can rouse a people from sleep." N.F.S. Grundtvig , "Modersmaalet" Following the loss of Schleswig to Germany, a sharp influx of German speakers moved into
3312-468: The shared written standard language remained). With the introduction of absolutism in 1660, the Danish state was further integrated, and the language of the Danish chancellery, a Zealandic variety with German and French influence, became the de facto official standard language , especially in writing—this was the original so-called rigsdansk ("Danish of the Realm"). Also, beginning in the mid-18th century,
3384-636: The site was constructed with two storeys in the 17th century, prior to the creation both of Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn. The property was later owned by grocer ( urtekræmmer ) Niels Titken (1668-1771). For a while, he served as alderman of the Grocer's Guild ( urtekræmmerlauget ). His property was listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 160 in St. Ann's East Quarter. His property adjoined a much larger property, No. 159 , owned by Jonas Baltzersen Collin (1705–1770). Collin's property consisted of two two-storey buildings, one towards both streets, attached to each other by
3456-486: The three languages can often understand the others fairly well, though studies have shown that the mutual intelligibility is asymmetric: Norwegian speakers generally understand both Danish and Swedish far better than Swedes or Danes understand each other. Concomitantly, Swedes and Danes understand Norwegian better than they understand each other's languages. Norwegian occupies the middle position in terms of intelligibility because of its shared border with Sweden, resulting in
3528-423: The time of the 1840 census. The number of residents had by 1845 declined to 96. In 1852 a section of the property was transferred to No. 68 B ( Nyhavn 31 , then No. 66 B & 68 B). J. J. Kastrup, a manufacturer of weights, was based in the building the early 1870s. The writer Arthur Abrahams (1836-1905) resided on the first floor from 1891 until his death. The building is constructed with four storeys over
3600-445: The turn of the 20th century. Danish itself can be divided into three main dialect areas: Jutlandic (West Danish), Insular Danish (including the standard variety), and East Danish (including Bornholmian and Scanian ). According to the view that Scandinavian is a dialect continuum, East Danish can be considered intermediary between Danish and Swedish, while Scanian can be considered a Swedified East Danish dialect, and Bornholmian
3672-411: The vernacular language to be accessible also to those who were not Latinate. The Jutlandic Law and Scanian Law were written in vernacular Danish in the early 13th century. Beginning in 1350, Danish began to be used as a language of administration, and new types of literature began to be written in the language, such as royal letters and testaments. The orthography in this period was not standardized nor
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#17328582786503744-462: The vernacular, such as the plural form of verbs, should be conserved in writing (i.e. han er "he is" vs. de ere "they are"). The East Danish provinces were lost to Sweden after the Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645) after which they were gradually Swedified; just as Norway was politically severed from Denmark, beginning also a gradual end of Danish influence on Norwegian (influence through
3816-512: The whore-bed with another man's wife and he comes away alive..." Jutlandic Law, 1241 In the medieval period, Danish emerged as a separate language from Swedish. The main written language was Latin, and the few Danish-language texts preserved from this period are written in the Latin alphabet, although the runic alphabet seems to have lingered in popular usage in some areas. The main text types written in this period are laws, which were formulated in
3888-488: The word by , meaning ‘village’ or ‘town’, occurs in many English place-names, such as Whitby and Selby , as remnants of the Viking occupation . During that period English adopted ‘are’, the third person plural form of the verb ‘to be’, as well as the personal pronouns ‘they’, ‘them’ and ‘their’ from contemporary Old Norse. Danish is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Swedish . A proficient speaker of any of
3960-479: The written languages are compatible, spoken Danish is distinctly different from Norwegian and Swedish and thus the degree of mutual intelligibility with either is variable between regions and speakers . Until the 16th century, Danish was a continuum of dialects spoken from Southern Jutland and Schleswig to Scania with no standard variety or spelling conventions. With the Protestant Reformation and
4032-487: Was a territory ruled by Denmark–Norway , one of whose official languages was Danish. Though Danish ceased to be an official language in Iceland in 1944, it is still widely used and is a mandatory subject in school, taught as a second foreign language after English. No law stipulates an official language for Denmark, making Danish the de facto official language only. The Code of Civil Procedure does, however, lay down Danish as
4104-452: Was also one of two official languages of Greenland (alongside Greenlandic ). Danish now acts as a lingua franca in Greenland, with a large percentage of native Greenlanders able to speak Danish as a second language (it was introduced into the education system as a compulsory language in 1928). About 10% of the population speaks Danish as their first language , due to immigration. Iceland
4176-504: Was formerly part of a much larger property, listed in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689 as NNo. 26 in St. Ann's East Quarter. It was owned by Jens Broch at that time. This property was divided into a number of smaller properties in around 1730. In 1731, it belonged to Hans Friederich Lange. He operated a brewery on the site. The property now known as Lille Strandstræde 18 was listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 98 and belonged to brewer Iver Christian Qvist at that time. The property
4248-511: Was home to 16 residents in two households at the time of the 1787 census. Peter Andreas Valentin, a brewer and grocer ( hørkræmmer ), resided in the building with his wife Anna Rebekka Bringe, their two children (aged two and five), three employees and one maid. Hans Jacob Hiorth, a judge in Hof- og Stadsretten , resided in the building with his wife Helena, two daughters (aged 10 and 22), one male servant, one female cook and one maid. Vanentin's property
4320-404: Was home to a total of 30 residents at the 1801 census. Valentin now with title of Regiment Quarter Master, resided in the building with his wife, their now four children (aged three to 19), a brewer, a brewer's assistant, a caretaker and a maid. Adam Christopher Knuth, a chamberlain, resided in the building with his wife Sophie Magdalene Knuth, their six children (aged four to 17), a male instructor,
4392-481: Was in 1852 divided into the two separate properties No. 55 A (now Lille Strandstræde 18) and No. 66 B (now Nyhavn 31 ). The two side wings and the rear wing were fully occupied when the 1834 census took place. These three buildings were home to a total of 95 residents in 22 households at the 1834 census. Niels Hansen, a master turner, resided on the ground floor of the side wing with his wife Eline Kirstine Lundsteen, their four children (aged two to 11), an apprentice and
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#17328582786504464-476: Was listed as No. 204 in St. Ann's Eastg Quarter. She died in 1836. The property was acquired in 1836 by clothing retailer Lars Kanneworff (1790–1859). Born in Ringkøbing in western Jutland , he had initially been trained as a whool-and-canvas merchant. In 1816, after moving to Copenhagen, he founded a gentlemen's clothing business . In 1820, he was married to Cathrine Magdalene Scheitel (1798-1839). Prior to buying
4536-469: Was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. It takes its name after Lars Kanneworff, a retailer of gentlemen's clothing who bought it in 1836, in the hands of whose family it remained for almost a hundred years. Copenhagen Amber Museum is now located in the building. The property was listed in Copenhagen's first cadastre from 1689 as No. 85 in St. Ann's East Quarter, owned by stonemason Jens Andersen. The present building on
4608-589: Was married to the lawyer and bank Hans Cornelius Ritzau, with whom she lived in Køge . Their son Helge Ritzau (1868-) opened a tobacco shop in the Kanneworff House in 1908. He was married to Ellen Alette Margrethe Schytte. The tobacco shop was located in the building until at least the late 1910s. manager In 1971, Bernhard Ingemann refurbished the building. In 1972, Henning Gravesen adapted it for residential use. In 1994, it
4680-482: Was mostly supplanted by the Low German spise . As well as loanwords, new words can be freely formed by compounding existing words. In standard texts of contemporary Danish, Middle Low German loans account for about 16–17% of the vocabulary, Graeco-Latin loans 4–8%, French 2–4% and English about 1%. Danish and English are both Germanic languages. Danish is a North Germanic language descended from Old Norse, and English
4752-430: Was once again adapted, now for use as a restaurant. Situated at an acute-angled corner , Kanneworff's House has an irregular floor plan, with a three-bay-long facade towards Bredgade, a four-bay-long facade towards the square and a just two-bay-long facade towards Store Strandstrædesurrounding a central courtyard/ lightwell Its current appearance is largely due to an adaptation in the 1780s which added an extra floor and
4824-618: Was once the Viking settlement of Jorvik. Several other English words derive from Old East Norse, for example "knife" ( kniv ), "husband" ( husbond ), and "egg" ( æg ). The suffix "-by" for 'town' is common in place names in Yorkshire and the east Midlands, for example Selby, Whitby, Derby, and Grimsby. The word "dale" meaning valley is common in Yorkshire and Derbyshire placenames. Fangær man saar i hor seng mæth annæns mansz kunæ. oc kumær han burt liuænd... . "If one catches someone in
4896-463: Was still not standardized and the principles for doing so were vigorously discussed among Danish philologists. The grammar of Jens Pedersen Høysgaard was the first to give a detailed analysis of Danish phonology and prosody, including a description of the stød . In this period, scholars were also discussing whether it was best to "write as one speaks" or to "speak as one writes", including whether archaic grammatical forms that had fallen out of use in
4968-448: Was succeeded by his son Thorvald Kanneworff (1835-1897). Thorvald Kanneworff's sister Otilia (1836–1904) was married to the businessman ( grosserer ) Anthon Valdemar Smidt. In 1880, when she had already become a widow, she lived on the ground floor of Lille Strandstræde 18 with her five children and her elder sister Ida Kanneworff (1722-1905). In 1881, Thorvald Kanneworff's firm was taken over by Christian Thorstensen (1838-). In 1896, it
5040-548: Was taken over by the founder's grandson Ivar Schmidt (1869-). His company was based in the building on Kongens Nytorv until at least 1915. The building was refurbished in 1904 under supervision of the architect Axel Erhard Petersen. One of Kanneworff's other daughters, Fanny. was granted a dwelling in Abel Cathrines Stiftelse . On 15 September 1862, she was married to the painter Niels Lützen [ da ] . Another daughter, Eugenia Dorothea Nathalia Kanneworff,
5112-469: Was the change of the diphthong æi (Old West Norse ei ) to the monophthong e , as in stæin to sten . This is reflected in runic inscriptions where the older read stain and the later stin . Also, a change of au as in dauðr into ø as in døðr occurred. This change is shown in runic inscriptions as a change from tauþr into tuþr . Moreover, the øy (Old West Norse ey ) diphthong changed into ø , as well, as in
5184-464: Was the spoken language, and the regional laws demonstrate the dialectal differences between the regions in which they were written. Throughout this period, Danish was in contact with Low German , and many Low German loan words were introduced in this period. With the Protestant Reformation in 1536, Danish also became the language of religion, which sparked a new interest in using Danish as
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