The vocabulary of Danish and Norwegian is very similar. In fact, Danish and Norwegian share many words. The degree of lexical similarity between Danish and Norwegian is greater than with Swedish. However, in certain cases, Norwegian and Swedish share the same word, but Danish does not. Here are ten words to illustrate:
bok bog (book)
buss bus (bus)
fot fod (foot)
hotell hotel (hotel)
landskap landskab (landscape)
mage mave (stomach)
mat mad (food)
natt nat (night)
skog skov (forest)
språk sprog (language)
Danish does not allow doubled consonants in word-final position. This prohibits words such as buss and natt in Danish. In many cases the letters b, d and g in Danish correspond to p, t and k in Norwegian and Swedish. This is the case in word pairs such as bok/bog and fot/fod. Despite the differences in vocabulary, it is clear that the three languages have very similar vocabulary.
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