Danish translation services from €0.05 per word Danish translation agency for a small, digital, demanding market.
Danish translation services by native Danish translators for e-commerce and websites, technical documentation, pharma and medtech, contracts and certified documents. Danish only, never a Scandinavian compromise. ISO 17100 certified.
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- What: Danish translation services into and out of Danish: e-commerce, technical, pharmaceutical, legal, financial and marketing content plus certified documents, delivered by native translators.
- How: Specialist translation to ISO 17100 with a second native reviewer, or machine translation with post-editing to ISO 18587 for large product catalogues.
- Cost: From €0.05 per word for MTPE and from €0.12 per word for specialist translation. Certified translations at fixed prices.
- What sets us apart: Danish-only translators, experience with Lægemiddelstyrelsen and Danish consumer law texts, and four ISO certifications.
Why Danish deserves its own translation team
A small language with a large, digital, demanding market
Denmark has fewer than six million inhabitants and one of the most digital economies in the world. Public services run on MitID and Digital Post, invoices to the public sector are electronic by law, and Danish consumers buy online more than almost anyone in Europe. A company that wants to sell, hire or operate in Denmark meets customers who expect to be addressed in fluent, informal Danish and who notice immediately when they are not.
That makes Danish a language where “close enough” fails. Danes read English well, which is exactly why a poor Danish translation looks worse than no translation at all: it signals that the English version is the real one and the Danish one an afterthought. Danish also has its own register conventions. Customers are addressed as du, titles are rarely used, and corporate language is plainer and shorter than in German or French. A translator who carries the formality of the source language into Danish produces a text that reads as foreign even when every word is correct.
Our Danish translators are native speakers living in Denmark or working daily with the Danish market, each specialised in a subject area. They translate into Danish only. Translations out of Danish go to a native speaker of the target language.
Subject areas for Danish translation
The six fields we are asked about most often
Danish projects cluster around a handful of industries in which Denmark is strong or in which foreign companies compete hardest for Danish customers. Each is handled by translators with a background in the field, supported by terminology management and a translation memory.
Product listings, category pages, checkout flows, returns policies and customer service macros for Danish online shops and marketplaces. E-commerce and trade
Submissions to Lægemiddelstyrelsen (the Danish Medicines Agency), patient information, clinical documentation and device labelling. Medical translations
Technical documentation, tender files, HSE material and maintenance manuals for the wind and renewables sector in which Denmark leads. Technical translations
Operating manuals, specifications and declarations of conformity for machinery, food processing and packaging equipment. Mechanical engineering
Contracts, employment agreements under Danish labour law, GDPR documentation and terms and conditions under Danish consumer law. Legal translations
Campaigns, websites, destination and hotel content for Danish travellers, written in the informal register Danish marketing uses. Marketing translations
What does a Danish translation cost?
Clear per-word prices you can calculate with
Danish is priced like the other Nordic languages: the pool of qualified specialist translators is smaller than for German or French, which is reflected in the starting price for specialist translation. The prices below are starting prices; the quote you receive in about 10 minutes within business hours is binding and shows every surcharge before you confirm.
| Service | From | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| MTPE (ISO 18587) | €0.05 per word | Product catalogues, support articles, internal documentation |
| Specialist translation (ISO 17100) | €0.12 per word | Contracts, medical documentation, manuals, annual reports |
| Certified translation | Fixed prices in the shop | Official documents, ordered through Sworn Translators |
| Translation memory matches | Discounted per match | Follow-up orders, version updates, recurring content |
| Express delivery | Surcharge shown in the quote | Contract deadlines, trade fair material, product launches |
A worked example: an online shop with 15,000 words of product and category copy is to be launched in Denmark. Translated as a specialist translation, it is quoted at around €1,800. The next season’s update reuses everything unchanged through the translation memory, so you pay only for new and edited text. Turnaround for the initial 15,000 words is typically four to five working days; express delivery is available where a campaign date requires it.
Danish, Swedish and Norwegian are not the same language
When one Scandinavian version is enough, and when it is not
Danes, Swedes and Norwegians can often follow each other’s languages in conversation, and companies sometimes conclude that one Scandinavian translation will cover all three markets. It will not. The written languages differ in spelling, vocabulary, grammar and tone, and consumer protection law in each country requires product information, terms and safety instructions in the national language. A Swedish manual in Denmark is a compliance problem as well as a readability one.
| Language | Market | Locale | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Danish | Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands | da-DK | Two grammatical genders, distinctive pronunciation, informal du throughout |
| Swedish | Sweden, parts of Finland | sv-SE, sv-FI | Separate language pair, see our Swedish translation services |
| Norwegian | Norway | nb-NO, nn-NO | Two written standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk; Bokmål for most business texts |
Where you serve all three markets, we translate into each language with native translators and share terminology across the three translation memories, so product names and recurring phrasing stay aligned without the languages blurring into each other.
Common pitfalls in Danish translation
What goes wrong with machine output and non-native translators
Danish looks deceptively simple on the page. The grammar is lighter than German, the vocabulary overlaps with English and German, and machine translation produces fluent-looking output. The errors are in the details that Danish readers care about.
| Pitfall | What goes wrong | How we handle it |
|---|---|---|
| Register | Formal De instead of du, titles and long sentences carried over from the source | Informal, plain Danish as the default; register agreed where a formal tone is wanted |
| Gender and compounds | Wrong gender (en or et), compounds split into two words as in English | Native translators; compound spelling checked in review |
| False friends | Danish words that look like English or German ones but mean something else, for example “eventuelt” (possibly) or “gift” (married, or poison) | Terminology review by a second native speaker |
| Legal and consumer terms | Terms and conditions translated literally instead of using the wording Danish consumer law expects | Legal translators familiar with Danish contract and consumer law |
| Numbers and dates | Decimal comma, thousands separator and date formats left in the source convention | Danish conventions fixed in the style guide and checked in QA |
Where volumes are high and content repetitive, product data or support articles for example, machine translation with full post-editing to ISO 18587 is the right tool. Our post-editing service is performed by native Danish translators who correct exactly the categories above.
Certified Danish translations
Accepted by authorities, registry offices and courts
Certified translations are needed when an authority has to accept the translation as equivalent to the original: Danish birth, marriage and death certificates, diplomas and transcripts, CVR company register extracts, powers of attorney, court decisions and contracts for proceedings abroad. In the other direction, foreign documents are certified for Danish authorities, employers and universities. The translator certifies the translation with stamp, signature and statement; some authorities require an apostille on the original as well.
For standard documents the quickest route is our online shop for certified translations: upload a scan, pay a fixed price and receive the certified translation by post, with a certified PDF available in advance. For corporate projects that mix certified and standard documents we coordinate both in one order.
Our English-language shop for certified translations into and out of Danish, at fixed prices and with delivery by post or as a certified PDF. Sworn Translators
Frequently asked questions
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Send us your document, your product feed or a sample and you will receive a binding quote in about 10 minutes within business hours, including our recommendation on register and workflow.
No obligation · Native Danish translators · ISO 17100, ISO 18587, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certifiedGlossary
Key terms in Danish translation
- Fælleskøn and intetkøn
- The two grammatical genders of Danish nouns (common and neuter, en and et). Choosing the wrong one is the most visible non-native error in Danish text.
- Du and De
- The informal and formal forms of address. Danish uses du almost universally, including in business and official communication; De is rare and reads as old-fashioned.
- CVR number
- The registration number of a Danish company in the Central Business Register (Det Centrale Virksomhedsregister). It appears on invoices, contracts and register extracts that often need certified translation.
- Lægemiddelstyrelsen
- The Danish Medicines Agency, responsible for the authorisation and supervision of medicines and medical devices in Denmark.
- Translation memory (TM)
- A database that stores every translated sentence so repeated content is reused and discounted. It keeps a shop, a manual or a website consistent across every update.