Getting around in Danish
Left, right, the station, one ticket, where is the toilet. Play the ten Danish words against the clock, with a note on how locals really use each one after every answer. All ten are written out below.
All 10 Danish phrases in this lesson
- Hvor er toilettet?vor AIR toy-LET-eth
- Where is the toilet?
- Hvordan kommer jeg til...?vor-DAN KOM-ah yai til
- How do I get to...?
- Til venstretil VEN-streh
- To the left
- Til højretil HOY-reh
- To the right
- LigeudLEE-eh-ooth
- Straight ahead
- Herhair
- Here
- Stationensta-SHOH-nen
- Train station
- Busboos
- Bus
- LufthavnenLOOFT-hown-en
- Airport
- En billet, taken bee-LET TAHK
- One ticket, please
Signs read Toilet or WC, with D for damer (women) and H for herrer (men). Cafes generally expect you to be a customer; a quick coffee buys the key code on the receipt.
"Hvordan kommer jeg til Nyhavn?". Expect directions to include the bike lanes.
Directions in Copenhagen come with bike lanes attached. Never walk in the bike lane; tourists learn that one from a bell at full speed.
The most common direction in a famously flat country. Usually delivered with a chopping hand down the street.
Copenhagen Central is Hovedbanegården, mercifully shortened to "Hovedbanen" or just "København H". S-trains (S-tog) cover the metro area, regional trains the rest.
Copenhagen transport runs on the Rejsekort card or the DOT app; the metro is driverless, spotless and runs all night. Board, tap in, tap out. Nobody checks visibly, but inspectors exist and fines are real.
Copenhagen Airport is Kastrup, and the metro gets you to the center in about fifteen minutes.
Buy in the DOT app or at machines; ticket windows are nearly gone. Zones determine price, and the app calculates them so you do not have to understand the zone map. Nobody fully does.