# Danish Translation Services

> Danish translation services for documents from Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS.

https://roxotranslations.com/danish-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Danish translation services for documents from Denmark, from Greenland, from the Faroe Islands and from the Danish communities abroad, to and from English, Italian, Russian and Arabic. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Danish from Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Danish is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Danish is the official language of Denmark, an official language of the Faroe Islands, together with Faroese, and a language widely used in Greenland, in administration and in schools, next to Greenlandic. It is also a recognized minority language in Schleswig-Holstein, in the north of Germany, and it has been an official language of the European Union since 1973. It has more than 5 million speakers. Between the middle of the 19th century and the early 20th century, hundreds of thousands of Danes emigrated to the United States, many of them to the Midwest and to Utah, and their descendants still look for Danish family records. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Danish, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and other countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Danish consulates, citizenship and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Danish language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Danish that we translate today, in both directions.

- Danish to [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- Danish to [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- Danish to [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- Danish to [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/) to Danish
- [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/) to Danish
- [Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/) to Danish
- [Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/) to Danish

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Danish translation services for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands

Written Danish is very close to Norwegian Bokmål, and many readers of one understand the other, but documents from Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands follow their own formats and their own official terms. A good translation follows the Danish of the original, keeps every letter of the names and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Letters: Danish uses the Latin alphabet with three more letters, æ, ø and å, which come after z. American documents often drop or replace them, so Søren becomes Soren and Ærø becomes Aero. Some names and places keep the old spelling aa for å, as in Aalborg. The translation keeps every name exactly as in the original, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Greenland and the Faroe Islands: many documents from Greenland come in Greenlandic and Danish side by side, and documents from the Faroe Islands may come in Faroese, Danish or both. We translate from the Danish text; if your document is only in Greenlandic or Faroese, tell us when you order and we confirm the options before quoting.
- Names: many surnames end in -sen, such as Jensen, Nielsen and Hansen, a trace of the old patronymics, which became fixed family names after a decree of 1828. In the United States some families changed them to Jenson or Hanson. The translation never adapts a name: it keeps the spelling of the original, and differences between your documents are something to point out when you order.
- Dates and numbers: documents write dates in day, month and year order, with a period after the day, so 3. oktober 2026 or 03.10.2026 is October 3, 2026, and the months are lowercase. Decimals use a comma and thousands a period, so 1.500,00 is one thousand five hundred. The personal identification number (CPR-nummer) begins with the date of birth.
- Documents from Denmark: the birth and name certificate (fødsels- og navneattest), usually issued by the parish of the Church of Denmark, the marriage certificate (vielsesattest), the certificate of residence (bopælsattest) and the degree certificate (eksamensbevis). The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language, descended from Old Norse, the language of Scandinavia in the Viking Age, through its eastern branch. Its oldest records are runic inscriptions, and the Jelling stones, raised in Jutland in the 10th century, one of them by King Harald Bluetooth, are often called the birth certificate of Denmark.

In the Middle Ages Danish began to be written in the Latin alphabet, and the Jutlandic Law (Jyske Lov), of 1241, is one of its oldest texts. The Bible of Christian III, the first complete Bible in Danish, came out in 1550 and became a model for the written standard. Norway was united with Denmark until 1814, and for centuries Danish was the written language there too, which is why written Norwegian is still so close to it. In the 19th century the tales of Hans Christian Andersen took Danish to readers all over the world.

A spelling reform in 1948 introduced the letter å in place of aa and ended the capital letters on common nouns, so Huset became huset. The Danish Language Council (Dansk Sprognævn), founded in 1955, publishes the official spelling dictionary (Retskrivningsordbogen). Since 1968 every resident has a CPR number, and today Danish has more than 5 million speakers, in Denmark, in Greenland, in the Faroe Islands and in the communities abroad.

## We also translate other languages

- [Slovak translation](https://roxotranslations.com/slovak-translation/)
- [Latvian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/latvian-translation/)
- [Irish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/irish-translation/)
- [Hungarian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/hungarian-translation/)
- [Estonian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/estonian-translation/)