Excerpt from A Danish and Dano-Norwegian Grammar English speaking students I had very often felt the lack of a reliable grammar of the language, and finally I made up my mind to try to supply the want. Special conditions of which I have not been master have caused the time inter vening between the writing of this book and its appearance in print to be a good deal longer than it ought to have been, i. E. About two years, and meanwhile there have appeared a couple of Danish or Norwegian grammars that may deserve this name. The reason why I have given my book the somewhat cum bersome title of a Danish and dano-norwegian Grammar will be apparent from the Introduction. As regards the use of the book I would advise the student first to make up his mind, whether he wants to study the pure Danish language or the dano-norwegian language. This must to a large ex tent depend upon personal and practical considerations. The tourist, the commercial traveller, the merchant may need to study one branch of the language or the other; the literary student may wish to acquaint himself with genuine Danish, or he may wish to study the vernacular of Bjornson and Ibsen. As a general rule I would say that the Danish pronunciation of fers, with its glottal catch and other peculiarities, more dith culties to the English speaking student than the Norwegian pronunciation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.