Danish Meaning
/ˈdeɪ.nɪʃ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounDanish pastry, light sweet yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.
nameThe language of Danes and Denmark.
Sentence Examples
Danish is recognised as a protected minority language in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
The Danish person tries to speak Italian at the beginning of the conversation.
Danish officials rejected Trump's offer to buy Greenland.
CEFR Practice Quiz
For breakfast, she ate a warm ____ pastry with apricot jam.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ is recognised as a protected minority language in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.
Word Origin & History
Alteration of Middle English Denish, Dench (under the influence of Dan — compare Dane), from Old English Denisċ (“Danish”), from Proto-Germanic *daniskaz. By surface analysis, Dane + -ish.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The Danish midfielder received life-saving treatment during his country’s game against Finland in June 2021, eventually being resuscitated and taken to hospital."
— 2023 January 3, Ben Church, “How Christian Eriksen returned to football after suffering cardiac arrest on pitch”, in CNN:
"Hotel food is reasonably good, and rather British, except for breakfasts, when most hotels serve ensaimades, a puff pastry half way between a croissant and a Danish."
— 1984 March 8, Peggy Speirs, “Doing the birdie on a long, long break”, in Evening Post, number 32,833, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 5:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
For breakfast, she ate a warm ____ pastry with apricot jam.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ is recognised as a protected minority language in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.