"A normal day"

Translation: En vanlig dag

[SverigeFae]

Normal = normal. Ordinary = vanlig

[danielmonteiro16]

So, does dag come from old dæg, es such as does day?

[Lundgren8]

Day and dag share the same origin yes, if that’s what you’re asking.

[danielmonteiro16]

Yes, ’twas. Thankya

[schyrsivochter]

As does German Tag, I think?

[Lundgren8]

Yes of course, all these Germanic languages.

[danielmonteiro16]

I love Germanic languages.

[NattKullav1]

From Wikipedia

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of approximately 500 million people mainly in North America, Oceania, Central Europe, Westernand Northern Europe.

The West Germanic branch includes the two most widely spoken Germanic languages: English, with approximately 360–400 million native speakers,and German, with over 100 million native speakers. Other major West Germanic languages are Dutch with 23 million speakers, Low German with approximately 5 million in Germany and 1.7 million in the Netherlands, andAfrikaans, an offshoot of Dutch, with over 7.2 million. The main North Germanic languages are Norwegian, Danish,Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese, which have a combined total of about 20 million speakers.

[exqeriment]

Whast are Germanic languages, anyways?

[exqeriment]

Tack! have a lingot.

[MarkNaylor4]

I have just read a book which days dag is pronounced 'da' unlike the speaker on this clip?

[Lundgren8]

Yeah, very often the g is dropped.

[BrianCcreature]

Tack för en underbar vanlig dag