Danish and Norwegian are both Germanic languages, and they share many similarities. However, they also have a number of differences. Let us illustrate with the negative imperative.
The imperative with the negative ikke (not) has a different word order in the two languages. Norwegian places the word ikke at the beginning of the sentence, but Danish places it at the end. Compare the following examples:
Ikke kom! (Don't come!)
Kom ikke! (Don't come!)
Ikke gå! (Don't go!)
Gå ikke! (Don't go!)
Ikke skynd deg! (Don't hurry!)
Skynd dig ikke! (Don't hurry!)
Ikke stopp! (Don't stop!)
Stop ikke! (Don't stop!)
Ikke glem! (Don't forget!)
Glem ikke! (Don't forget!)
Though Danish and Norwegian are related languages, they use different word orders for the negative imperative. Danish places the negative adverb ikke at the end of the imperative, but Norwegian places it at the beginning. This is an important distinction between the two languages.
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