A non-native's understanding of the grammatical differences between Danish and Norwegian

[Luke_5.1991]

Norwegian puts the definite article post-fix after nouns with adjectives:
det røde huset

Danish doesn't:
det røde hus

Norwegian can put the possessive article after the noun:
faren min | min far

Danish cannot:
min far

Norwegian can have 2-3 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter):
en mann | en/ei kvinne | et barn

Standard Danish only has 2 (common, neuter):
en mand | en kvinde | et barn

There's a more complete list on this Wikipedia page

[runem]

"Faren min" and similar constructions are possible in Danish, but it sounds distinctly archaic or lyrical :)

[bjarkehs]

It's the sound you make just before somebody punches you in the face and call you a Norwegian.

[Wizek]

Ah, the good old Narcissism of Small Differences at play. :)

[fer84]

Most confusing for me is frokost - it should mean breakfast, I mean, it is so close to the German word "Frühstück", and guess what, it is breakfast in bøkmal ... Maybe the Danish get up so early that they join the Norwegians and Germans for a good froskost at 10 am

[Luke_5.1991]

I love how the Danes look at a word like "morgenmad" and say, "hey, why don't we just pronounce like, half of those letters. Yeah, sounds good."

[bjarkehs]

"mornmad"? That's even a very well pronounced version.

[zixster]

haha I thought only English speakers did that. we omit entire words. " 's up?" is a great example :)