Norwegian lesson 2

Dialogue

Phrases and Vocabulary

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Dette er en av gode venner mine. This is one of my good friends.

• ven friend

Hun er på besøk. She is visiting.

• på besøk on a visit, visiting

Hun er også lærer. She is also a teacher.

så trodde jeg at jeg skulle vise henne skolen vår so I thought that I would show her our school

• å vise to show
• vår our

dette er this is

Hvordan var dagen deres? How was your day? (to more than one person)

• dag day

fryktelig terrible

Å, helvete! Oh, hell!

Det kan ikke være verre enn min. It can’t be worse than mine.

• verre worse
• enn than

Det finne jeg vanskelig å tro. That I find hard to believe.

• å finne to find
• vanskelig difficult

Før vi begynner, vi jeg vite hvem av dere har gjort dette. Before we begin, I want to know which of you did this.

• før before
• å begynne to begin
• å vite to know
• hvem who

Fint. Fine.

Jeg håper dere nyter denne ‘pop quizen’. I hope you enjoy this ‘pop quiz’.

• å nyte to enjoy
• Remember, ‘dere‘ is used when talking to more than one person; for one person, use ‘du‘.

Det var henne. It was her.

Dere hjalp. You helped.

• å hjelpe to help

Det burde jeg ha visst. That I should have known.

Dere skal fjerne alle plakatene fra dette rommet. You will remove all the posters from this room.

• å fjerne to remove
• plakater signs
• rom room

bilen min my car

huset mitt my house

Det aner meg… I assume…

Det var de samme jentene som står bake hva skjedde med mig. It was the same girl behind what happened to me.

• jentene girls
• å stå to stand
• bake behind
• å skje to happen

Grammar

Definite and indefinite articles

In order to grasp the use of definite and indefinite articles in Norwegian, one must know that Norwegian classifies nouns as ‘common’ or ‘neuter’ (in some dialects, it is masculine, feminine or neuter, but don’t worry about that for now). Below is an explanation of how this factors into the use of definite and indefinite articles.

Indefinite articles

The indefinite article in Norwegian (in English: a, an) is ‘en‘ for common nouns and ‘et‘ for neuter nouns.

Definite articles

In Norwegian, the definite article is added to the end of a word. Add ‘-en‘ for common nouns and ‘-et‘ for neuter nouns. Sometimes this results in a double consonant. Examples:

• en bok – boken
• en katt – katten
• et hus – huset
• et rom – rommet