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Likes and Dislikes -'lide'[chapterheader]
Danish for to like is at kunne lide.
Warning: As you can see lide goes together with kunne. If you omit kunne in the lovely sentence jeg kan lide meget (I like a lot (of things)), it becomes Jeg lider meget (I suffer a lot) as lide on its own means to suffer(!).
The Danes tend to pronounce it as kunne li' - keep it short, you don't sound out the 'de' - opposed to suffer where you sound out the whole of the word 'lide'.
| Da | En | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do you like..? | |||||
| Kan du lide kaffe? | Do you like coffee? | ||||
| Yes | |||||
| Ja. Jeg kan godt lide kaffe | Yes. I like coffee | ||||
| No | |||||
| Nej. Jeg kan ikke lide kaffe. | No. I don't like coffee | ||||
| Correcting | |||||
| Kan du ikke lide te? | Don't you like tea? | ||||
| Jo, jeg kan godt lide te | Yes. I do like tea | ||||
| You say 'jo' instead of 'ja' when you are correcting someone | |||||
| I like both | |||||
| p | Jeg kan både lide te og kaffe | I like both tea and coffee | |||
| I don't like either | |||||
| p | Jeg kan hverken lide te eller kaffe | I don't like tea or coffee | |||
| Preference | |||||
| Jeg kan bedre lide te end kaffe | I like tea better than coffee | ||||
Notice that godt [lit: well] is added when say you like something.
Godt can be left out but Danes usually keep it in as to emphasize that yes they do like this or that.