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This lesson introduces vocabulary for preparing ingredients and using everyday kitchen appliances to step up your cooking game.

### Prepping the Ingredients

Before you start cooking, you often need to peel (*skrælle*) your vegetables. A peeler is called *en skrællekniv*.

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If you are preparing a salad or a garnish, you might need to grate (*rive*) carrots or cheese using a grater (*et rivejern*).

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Most of this prep work takes place on a cutting board (*et skærebræt*).

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### Cooking and Mashing

When you bring a soup or a sauce to a gentle, low boil, you let it simmer (*simre*).

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Some recipes require you to mash (*mose*) your ingredients. You can do this with a simple fork or a dedicated kitchen tool.

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### Kitchen Appliances

Modern kitchens are full of helpful appliances. A blender (*en blender*) is perfect for pureeing fruit or mixing liquids.

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For a quick breakfast, you might use the toaster (*brødristeren*) or boil water in the electric kettle (*elkedlen*).

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Finally, when you need to warm something up quickly, the microwave (*mikrobølgeovnen*) is always handy.

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Kitchen Preparations

adjective

adverb

conjunction

determiner

interjection

noun

numeral

particle

phrase

preposition

pronoun

sentence

verb

Definite nouns and the copula (-en, -et, er)

Indefinite articles (en, et)

Present tense verbs and word order (-r)

Plural subject pronouns (vi, I, de)

The verb to have (har)

Yes/No questions

Wh-questions (hvad, hvem, hvor)

Main clause negation (ikke)

Regular noun plurals (-er, -r)

Short noun plurals (-e)

Definite plurals (-ne)

Neuter adjective agreement (-t)

Plural adjective agreement (-e)

Adjectives with indefinite nouns

Adjectives with definite nouns (den / det / de ... -e)

Numbers 1 to 10

Numbers 11 to 20

Counting by tens to 100

Expressing age (er ... år)

Genitive possession (-s)

Singular possessives (min, din)

Third-person possessives (hans, hendes)

Plural possessives (vores, jeres, deres)

Reflexive possessives (sin, sit, sine)

Singular object pronouns (mig, dig)

Plural object pronouns (os, jer, dem)

The infinitive marker (at)

The modal verb can (kan)

The modal verb want to (vil)

The modal verb must (skal)

Negating modal verbs

Inversion after adverbs

Prepositions of position (i, på)

Prepositions of direction (til, fra)

Days of the week (mandag, tirsdag...)

Months of the year (januar, februar...)

Telling time (hel, halv, kvart)

Coordinating conjunctions (og, men, eller)

Subordinating conjunctions (at, fordi)

Subordinate clause negation

Commands (køb, vent, spis)

Zero-ending neuter plurals

The Human Body: Head and Face

The Human Body: Limbs and Torso

Personal Hygiene

Digital Life

Tools and Hardware

Emergency and Safety

Common Materials

Money and Payments

Short answers (Ja, det gør jeg)

Greetings (hej, godmorgen, farvel)

Thanks and apologies (tak, undskyld)

Jobs and nationalities (Hun er lærer)

Likes and dislikes (kan godt lide)

Somebody and something (nogen, noget, ingen)

How much? (meget, lidt, mere, nok)

With, by, over and under (med, ved, over, under)

Ordinals and dates (den første april)

Wishes for every occasion (tillykke, god bedring)

Times of day (om morgenen, om aftenen)

My day (stå op, gå i seng)

Past tense I: -ede and -te (i går)

My new hat (min nye hat, små, gamle)

Past tense II: irregular verbs (var, havde, gik)

Reacting in a conversation (nå, det lyder godt)

The family and irregular plurals (mænd, børn, fødder)

In the shop (Hvad koster det?)

Demonstratives: that and those (den, det, de)

Demonstratives: this and these (denne, dette, disse)

Adverbs of manner (-t)

Comparing things (-ere, end)

Superlative adjectives (-est)

Definite superlative adjectives (-este)

Irregular adjective comparison

Comparing long adjectives (mere, mest)

The reflexive pronoun (sig)

Reflexive verbs

Reciprocal verbs (-s)

Deponent verbs (-s)

Past opinions (syntes)

Present perfect tense with regular verbs (har... -et/-t)

Present perfect tense with irregular verbs (har...)

Present perfect tense with movement (er...)

Past perfect tense (havde / var...)

Question	Answer
to peel	skrælle
the peeler	skrællekniven
You must peel the potato with the new peeler.	Du skal skrælle kartoflen med den nye skrællekniv.
He cannot find the peeler because she always has it.	Han kan ikke finde skrællekniven fordi hun altid har den.
to grate	rive
the grater	rivejernet
Why do you always grate the cheese on the grater?	Hvorfor river du altid osten på rivejernet?
The chef grates the carrot on the grater in the kitchen.	Kokken river guleroden på rivejernet i køkkenet.
to simmer	simre
The soup must simmer in the pot before we eat it.	Suppen skal simre i gryden før vi spiser den.
I do not know why the sauce never simmers.	Jeg ved ikke hvorfor sovsen aldrig simrer.
the blender	blenderen
to mash	mose
The woman uses the blender because she also wants to mash the fruit.	Kvinden bruger blenderen fordi hun også vil mose frugten.
How much milk should I pour into the blender?	Hvor meget mælk skal jeg hælde i blenderen?
the toaster	brødristeren
the microwave	mikrobølgeovnen
How much do the new toaster and the microwave cost?	Hvor meget koster den nye brødrister og mikrobølgeovnen?
the cutting board	skærebrættet
The man puts the toaster next to the cutting board.	Manden sætter brødristeren ved siden af skærebrættet.
the electric kettle	elkedlen
The water boils quickly in the electric kettle.	Vandet koger hurtigt i elkedlen.
You must turn on the electric kettle when you want coffee.	Du skal tænde elkedlen når du vil have kaffe.
The girl peels the cucumber on the large cutting board.	Pigen skræller agurken på det store skærebræt.
How often do they mash the potatoes with the fork?	Hvor tit moser de kartoflerne med gaflen?
The boy puts the food in the microwave because he is often hungry.	Drengen sætter maden i mikrobølgeovnen fordi han ofte er sulten.
to taste	smage
The soup tastes good.	Suppen smager godt.
Would you like to taste the cake?	Vil du smage på kagen?
to stir	røre
You have to stir the soup all the time.	Du skal røre i suppen hele tiden.
She stirs sugar into the coffee.	Hun rører sukker i kaffen.

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