Phonetics Guide
Learn the sounds of Danish with our comprehensive IPA guide. Understand how each phoneme is pronounced with real word examples.
Vowels
Monophthong vowel sounds
Short "e" sound as in "bed"
Schwa - unstressed neutral vowel
Short "i" sound as in "sit"
"a" sound as in "cat"
Long "ee" sound as in "see"
Short "oo" sound as in "put"
Long "ah" sound as in "father"
Long "aw" sound as in "law"
Long "oo" sound as in "too"
"uh" sound as in "cup"
Short "o" sound as in "lot" (British)
Diphthongs
Gliding vowel sounds
Long "i" sound as in "my"
"ow" sound as in "now"
Long "a" sound as in "day"
"ear" sound as in "near"
Consonants
Consonant sounds
Voiceless alveolar fricative
Alveolar nasal
Voiceless alveolar plosive
Alveolar lateral approximant
Voiceless velar plosive
Bilabial nasal
"ng" sound as in "sing"
Voiceless labiodental fricative
Voiced dental fricative (th as in "this")
Voiced alveolar plosive
Voiceless bilabial plosive
Voiced labiodental fricative
Voiced bilabial plosive
"y" sound as in "yes"
Voiceless glottal fricative
Alveolar approximant
"sh" sound as in "she"
Voiced velar plosive
Voiced alveolar fricative
"ch" sound as in "church"
"w" sound as in "we"
"zh" sound as in "measure"
Voiceless dental fricative (th as in "think")
Common Patterns
Frequent phonetic patterns