Danish Tongue Twisters
Tungebrækkere / Spiritusprøve

Rough Translations

1. When the white came to the savages the savages wanted to know what the white wanted from the savages. 
2. Fisherman Frits fishes fresh fish. 
3. The church ringer in (the town of) Ringe, is ringing more lousy than the church ringer in Ringsted. 
4. Was it Varde, eh? Was it, eh? 
5. The butcher sat in the basement and picked fat. 
6. What is wrong with the road in Vejen? That which is wrong with the road in Vejen, is that the people in Vejen stand in the way of the road in Vejen. That is what is wrong with the road in Vejen. 
7. Member of the commission to expropiate private property (for the building of ) the bridge over Storstrømmen (the waters separating to isles) 
8. Dead red red-eyed rotten smoked trouts with cream. 
9. Hundred pounds of female poodle wool 
10. The priest's goat in the clerk's meadow. 
11. Blue street posters. Blue street posters, Blue ... 
12. I come from an island in the river, I do! 
13. Once upon a time there was a king who had 3 sons the first one was called Skrat, the second Skratskratterat and the third Skratskratteratskratteskriumskrat. In a neighbouring kingdom lived a king who had 3 daughters, the first one was called Sip, the second one Sipsippenip, and the third one Sipsippenipsipsirumsip. when time came they got married to eachother. Skrat to Sip, Skratskratterat to Sipsippenip and Skratskratteratskratskrirumskrat to Sipsippenipsipsirumsip. And they lived happily ever after. German: Dies ist eigentlich ein Märchen aus West Juteland. Die männlichen Namen spielen mit dem Wort "skratte": kreischen, schrill ertönen, quietschen, krächzen; krächzend lachen, laut auflachen. Die weiblichen spielen mit dem Wort "sippenippe": zartes Weib; Xanthippe. 
14. The bakers happy street posters 
15. Bishop Bissen's plaster dentures and the bishop's wife's gasp. 
16. (a type of) red jelly with cream. German: Rotegrütze mit Sahne. 
17. The plaster denture of the plaster bishop of Bissen (a sculptor). 
18. stand fence, cap 
19. The walking stick of lawnmower Knudsen probably won't break. 
20. Daddy, do sheep have sheep? No, sheep don't have sheep, sheep have lambs. 
21. You can't always pick fruit with a used fruit plucker. 
22. Five flat cream puffs on a flat cream puff dish. 
23. Member of the commission to expropiate private property (for the building of ) the bridge over Storstrømmen (the waters separating to isles) 
24. woman from Constantinopel 
25. A strange barefoot arabian barber picks raw rhubarb in his arabian rhubarb neighborhood. 
26. Smoked trout with scramppled eggs and red jelly with cream. 
27. Be prepared for any weather. 
28. the bishop's plaster dentures  
29. Aunt Tove took early the train to Thisted. The journey took time, it took two hours. 
 


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