Danish and English/Contrastive Grammar
From LING073
Grammatical differences
Gender
Danish nouns are either common gender or neuter gender while English nouns are genderless. The corresponding indefinite article for a Danish nouns is either "en" if it is common gender or "er" if it is neuter gender. The corresponding indefinite article for an English noun is always "a".
- (dan) en stor pige → (eng) a big girl
- (dan) en<det><ind><ut><sg>
stor<adj><sint><pst><ut><sg><ind>
kuli<n><pl> → (eng) wonapasiat<n><def><pl> sipota<adj><p3><pl><nohum>