Danish–English dictionary

egenskabsord

(grammar) A word that modifies a noun or noun phrase or describes a noun’s referent.

egentlig

(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

eger

A stick inserted into the wheel of a vehicle to keep the wheel from turning.

egern

Any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae.

egeskov

(countable) A wood populated with oak trees.

eget efternavn

The original last name of a person, usually a woman, who has changed their last name upon marriage.

egnet

Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.

ego

The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.

egoism

The tendency to think selfishly with exclusive self-interest in mind.

egoistisk

Caring about oneself and the gratification of one's own desires rather than others; selfish.

egreneringsmaskine

A machine used for separating cotton fibers from cotton seeds, etc.

Egypten

A country in North Africa and West Asia. Official name: Arab Republic of Egypt. Capital: Cairo.

egypter

A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.

egyptisk

Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.

eh

Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.

ehm

Used as a question to demand an answer from someone.

Einstein

Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th-century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.

einsteinium

A transuranic chemical element (symbol Es) with atomic number 99: a soft, silvery, paramagnetic metal.

ej

Negates the meaning of the modified verb.

ejakulation

(specifically) A reflex in human beings and other mammals in response to sexual stimulation involving the forcible ejection from the urethra of, in males, semen; and, in females, vaginal fluid.

ejakulere

(intransitive, often vulgar, slang) To achieve orgasm; to cum; to ejaculate.

eje

(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.

ejefalds-

Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.

ejendom

Something that is owned.

ejendommelig

(now, _, dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual. [from 14th c.]

ejendomsmægler

(UK, Ireland) A person or company that acts in the sale, purchase, lease or maintenance of land, property, real estate etc for another.

ejendomsret

The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.

ejer

One who owns something.

ejerlejlighed

(US, Canada, Philippines) A building or complex of buildings that provides multiple residential units each of which is owned separately but whose grounds, structure, etc. (if any) are owned jointly. [from 20th c.]

ekko

A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

eklektiker

Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

eklektisk

Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.

ekliptika

(astronomy) The plane in which this great circle lies.

eks-

former

eksakt

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

eksalteret

(physics) Being in a state of higher energy.

eksamen

(education) A formal test involving answering written or oral questions under a time constraint and usually without access to textbooks; typically, a large, written test administered to high school and college students covering course material studied in a semester.

eksaminator

A person who marks an examination.

eksceptionel

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.

eksekution

(legal) The proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments.

eksekvere

(transitive, law) To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.

eksem

(biology, medicine) A non-contagious acute or chronic inflammation of the skin, characterized by redness, itching, and the outbreak of oozing vesicular lesions which become encrusted and scaly.

eksil

(uncountable) The state of being banished from one's home or country.

eksistens

(Ontology) The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.

eksistere

(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality

eksisterende

That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.

ekskludering

The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]

eksklusion

The act of excluding or shutting out; removal from consideration or taking part. [from 17th c.]

ekskommunikation

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

ekskrement

(now, _, specifically) Human and non-human animal solid waste excreted from the bowels; feces.

ekskurs

A wandering from the main subject: a digression.

ekskursion

A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way.

eksludere

(transitive) To bar (someone or something) from entering; to keep out.

eksorbitant

Exceeding proper limits; excessive or unduly high; extravagant.

eksorcisme

The ritual act of driving out evil spirits from persons, places or things that are possessed by them.

eksorcist

A person, especially a priest or priestess, who is a masterful practitioner in purification and exorcism to force out evil spirits and/or demons from a living being.

eksoterisk

Capable of being fully or readily comprehended by the public; accessible; also, having an obvious application.

eksotisk

Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.

ekspandere

(transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something).

ekspansion

An act, process, or instance of expanding.

ekspedient

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

ekspedition

A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose

ekspeditrice

One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records, accounts, letters, etc.; an office worker.

eksperiment

A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried.

eksperimentel

Serving as an experiment; serving to experiment.

eksperimentere

(transitive, obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.

eksperimenteren

The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

eksplicit

Very specific, clear, or detailed. [from 1609]

eksplorere

(intransitive, medicine) To examine diagnostically.

eksplosion

An explosive charge for blasting.

eksplosionsagtig

Having the character of an explosion.

eksplosiv

Able to, or likely to, explode.

eksponent

(mathematics) The number by which a value (called the base) is said to be raised to a power in exponentiation: for example, the 3 in 2^3=8.

eksport

(uncountable) The act of exporting.

eksportere

(transitive) To carry away.

eksportør

One who, or that which, exports: especially a person who or organization that exports or sells goods made in one country for delivery in another country.

eksportvare

(countable) Something that is exported.

ekspres

A mode of transportation, often a train, that travels quickly or directly, either on a regular schedule or as a special or excursion. Express trains often pass through stations along the way without stopping at them.

ekstatisk

Feeling or characterized by ecstasy.

ekstensiv

(figurative) Considerable in amount.

ekstern

Provided by something or someone outside of the entity (object, group, company etc.) considered.

ekstra

(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.

ekstra-

Outside of, beyond.

ekstrakt

Something that is extracted or drawn out.

ekstraordinær

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare.

ekstrem

The greatest or utmost point, degree, or condition.

ekstremisme

Extreme ideas or actions, primarily in politics or religion.

ekstremitet

A hand or foot. [from early 15th c.]

ekstrovert

(informal, _, psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an extrovert: outgoing, sociable.

ektoplasma

(parapsychology) A visible substance believed to emanate from the body of a spiritualistic medium during communication with the dead.

el

Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.

elastisk

Capable of stretching; particularly, capable of stretching so as to return to an original shape or size when force is released.

Elben

A major river in central Europe that passes through the Czech Republic and Germany before flowing into the North Sea.

elbil

(rare, countable) An electric car, locomotive, train etc.

elefant

A large mammal of the family Elephantidae in the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and native to Africa and Asia.

Elefanten

The 105th sura (chapter) of the Quran.

elefanthue

A type of warm headgear covering the neck, head, and often part of the face, with apertures left as necessary, often made out of wool.

elegance

Grace, refinement, and beauty in movement, appearance, or manners.

elegant

Elegant, stylish.

elegi

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation. [from early 16th c.]

elektiv

Of, or pertaining to voting or elections; involving a choice between options.

Elektra

(Greek mythology) Any of several mythical women, including a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, one of the Pleiades, and one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.

elektricitet

(physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. [from 18th c.]

elektriker

A tradesperson who installs, repairs and maintains electrical wiring and equipment.

elektrisk

Of, relating to, produced by, operated with, or utilising electricity; electrical.

elektrisk strøm

(electromagnetism) The net charge that passes through some cross-section of a conducting material (in one direction), per unit time, having the SI unit A (C/s).

elektro-

and electrical.

elektrochok

(An) electric shock.

elektrode

The terminal through which electric current passes between metallic and nonmetallic parts of an electric circuit.

elektromagnetisk

Relating to electromagnetism.

elektromagnetisme

A unified fundamental force that combines the aspects of electricity and magnetism and is one of the four fundamental forces. (technically it can be unified with weak nuclear to form electroweak) Its gauge boson is the photon.

elektron

(particle) The subatomic particle having a negative charge and orbiting the nucleus; the flow of electrons in a conductor constitutes electricity.

element

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.

elementar-

(physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.

elementarpartikel

(physics) Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle. [from 19th c.]

elementær

Elementary, simple, fundamental, merely functional.

elementer

(in the plural only, with "the") Atmospheric forces such as strong winds and rains.

elendig

Deserving strong condemnation; shockingly bad, wretched.

elendighed

Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

Eleonora

A en given name.

elev

(dated, _, except in, _, UK) A learner at a school under the supervision of a teacher.

elevator

(UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, puristic, _, elsewhere) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

elevatorstol

The moving, load-carrying component of an elevator or other cable-drawn transport mechanism.

elg

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

eliminere

(transitive) To use up or to waste.

Elisa

(biblical character) A prophet, a disciple and successor of Elijah.

Elisabeth

The mother of John the Baptist according to the Christian and Islamic scriptures

elite

(usually, with the) The best or most preferable part.

elitist

(usually, derogatory) Someone who believes in or is perceived as believing in rule by an elite group.

elitistisk

Of or relating to elitism.

elledning

A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.

Ellen

A en given name.

eller snarere

(archaic, otherwise, jocular) Or rather, or should I say; moreover (introducing a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one). [from 16th c.]

ellers

(usually follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.

elleve

The cardinal number occurring after ten and before twelve. Represented as 11 in Arabic digits.

ellevte

The ordinal form of the number eleven.

ellevtedel

One of eleven equal parts of a whole.

ellipseformet

(mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.

elliptisk

(mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.

elm

(countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.

Elmer

A surname transferred from the given name.

elmetræ

(countable) A tree of the genus Ulmus of the family Ulmaceae, large deciduous trees with alternate stipulate leaves and small apetalous flowers.

Elsass

A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.

elsasser

A native or inhabitant of Alsace (now part of the administrative region of Grand Est, France).

elsdyr

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

elske

(usually, transitive, sometimes, _, intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).

elske med

(transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with (perhaps from make love).

elskede

Often used as an affectionate term of address: a person who is very dear to one.

elskerinde

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

elskværdighed

The state of being kind.