Danish Grammar Checker

Check Danish spelling, grammar and punctuation for free. Paste your text, press Check and fix mistakes in one click. Gratis stave- og grammatikkontrol.

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At a glance

Price
Free
Sign-up
Not required
Checks
Grammar, spelling, punctuation and style
Language
Dansk (Danish)
Text limit
20,000 characters per check
Privacy
Not stored by SpellMistake
Engine
LanguageTool (open source) plus SpellMistake rules
Grammar support
Basic (fewer grammar rules for this language)

What the Danish grammar checker catches

  • Spelling and typos
  • Compound words
  • Common grammar mistakes
  • Punctuation and capitalization

How to check your Danish text

  1. Paste or type your Danish text into the editor above. The language is already set to Danish.
  2. Press Check text. Mistakes are highlighted and explained on the right.
  3. Click a suggestion to accept it, or press Fix all, then copy your corrected text.

About Danish

Danish is spoken in Denmark and is closely related to Norwegian and Swedish. Compound words and silent letters make careful proofreading worthwhile.

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About writing in Danish

Danish spelling is famously far from pronunciation, and many verb forms sound identical. The most common written errors involve -e and -er endings, compound words and the letters æ, ø and å. Grammar support for Danish in LanguageTool, which the checker above uses, is basic, so a clean result is worth a second read.

5 common mistakes in Danish

1. -e or -er verb endings

After modal verbs such as vil, kan and skal, use the infinitive (-e): lære. The present tense lærer is used on its own: jeg lærer dansk.

❌ Jeg vil gerne lærer dansk.
✅ Jeg vil gerne lære dansk.

2. Compound words written apart

Danish writes compound nouns as one word: køkkenbord, sommerferie, fødselsdag.

❌ Vi har et nyt køkken bord.
✅ Vi har et nyt køkkenbord.

3. Æ, ø and å typed as other letters

æ, ø and å are separate Danish letters. Writing ae, oe or aa is an old workaround and is not standard today, except in some names.

❌ Jeg er glad for at vaere her.
✅ Jeg er glad for at være her.

4. Nogen or nogle

In careful writing, nogle is used with countable plurals (some friends) and nogen with uncountable nouns and in questions or negatives.

❌ Jeg har nogen gode venner.
✅ Jeg har nogle gode venner.

5. Ligge or lægge

Lægge means to put something down. Ligge means to lie somewhere.

❌ Kan du ligge bogen på bordet?
✅ Kan du lægge bogen på bordet?

Try it with a sample sentence

Paste this sentence into the checker above to see what it flags, then compare it with the corrected version:

❌ Jeg vil gerne lærer at vaere bedre.
✅ Jeg vil gerne lære at være bedre.

Frequently asked questions

Is the Danish grammar checker free?

Yes. It is completely free, with no sign-up and no download.

Is my Danish text stored?

SpellMistake does not save it. To check it, your text is sent to the LanguageTool service, as explained in our Privacy Policy.

How good is the Danish grammar check?

It is basic. Spelling is checked well, but LanguageTool has a small set of Danish grammar rules, so read your text over once more.

Does it check compound words?

It flags misspelled words, but compounds written as two correct words are not always detected.

Can I check Norwegian too?

Yes. Use the Norwegian (Bokmål) checker or the Nynorsk spell checker.