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- "Undskyld."
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Here they pronounce the "o" more subtle than duolingo:
http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=Undskyld&search=S%C3%B8g
Is this correct?
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Actually 'undskyld' must be closely related as well to Dutch 'onschuld', which means 'innocence' - and which makes me love this Danish word.
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That would be uskyld in Danish. :)
U- is the negation prefix, while und- denotes a movement away from [noun].
Apparently it works indeed like German "Entschuldigung", which is a very much shortened version of asking the other person to please forgive (or more literally: to remove from oneself) the "Schuld" (my "fault", closely related to the word for "debt") which one has toward that person due to a misstep.
Yikes this audio is terrible!
Check here for the correct pronunciation: https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=undskyld
You'll get used to the d being a "glottal stop", which is how the tt of button or butter is pronounced in some English dialects at the back of the throat.
The y is prounced like saying ooee very fast (or ee with your mouth and lips "rounded" like a slight tunnel) in English, or luke German ü or French u in tu.