Danish Pronouns

Learning the Danish Pronouns is very important because its structure is used in every day conversation. The more you master it the more you get closer to mastering the Danish language. But first we need to know what the role of Pronouns is in the structure of the grammar in Danish. Danish pronouns include personal pronouns (refer to the persons speaking, the persons spoken to, or the persons or things spoken about), indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns (connect parts of sentences) and reciprocal or reflexive pronouns (in which the object of a verb is being acted on by verb’s subject). Here are some examples:

English Pronouns	Danish Pronouns
Pronouns	Pronominer
I	Jeg
you	du
he	han
she	hun
we	vi
they	de
me	mig
you	du
him	ham
her	hende
us	os
them	dem
my	min
your	Deres
his	hans
her	hende
our	vores
their	deres
mine	mine
yours	Deres
his	hans
hers	hendes
ours	vores
theirs	deres

As you can see from the example above, the structure of the Pronouns in Danish has a logical pattern. Locate the Pronouns above and see how it works with the rest of the sentence in Dansk.

List of Pronouns in Danish

Below is a list of the Personal pronouns, indefinite pronouns, relative pronouns, reciprocal or reflexive pronouns in Danish placed in a table. Memorizing this table will help you add very useful and important words to your Danish vocabulary.

Danish Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

with en words	with et words	with plural words
my / mine	min	mit	mine
your / yours	din	dit	dine
his / her / its / their	sin	sit	sine
his / his	hans	hans	hans
her / hers	hendes	hendes	hendes
its / its	dens	dens	dens
our / ours	vores	vores	vores
your / yours	deres	deres	deres
their / theirs	deres	deres	deres

The same forms are used for possessive adjectives that are used directly before nouns and for possessive pronouns that replace a noun. For example, this is my car and this is mine would be translated as det her er min bil and det her er min. Sin, sit and sine can only be used when the third person possessive adjective refers to the subject of the same clause. These words can be translated as his, her, its or their. Generally, if you cannot insert “own” after the possessive adjective in English, you cannot use sin/sit/sine. Per besøger sin mor. = Per visits his (own) mother. (Sin refers back to Per.) Eva ringer til hans mor. = Eva calls his mother. (Hans refers to Per, not Eva.)  ]]>