Dialogue
Vocabulary and Phrases
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Å hei! Oh, hi!
Få vi lov til å skrive ut noe i rommet ditt? Can we print something out in your room?
- å skrive ut to print (out)
Ikke noe problem. Bare kom med. No problem. Just come with (me).
- å komme med to come along, to come with (someone)
De har enda innpakket SmartBordet! They even wrapped the SmartBoard!
- enda even
- å innpakke to wrap
Jeg tror jeg har funnet hvem gjorde dette. I think I found who did this.
- har funnet have found
Svenskene! The Swedes!
Ikke bekymre dere. Vi skal få hevn. Don’t worry. We will get revenge.
- å bekymre seg to worry
- hevn revenge
Hva gjorde du i Fru Lindgrens klasserom? What did you do in Mrs. Lindgren’ classroom?
- et klasserom a classroom
Bare en liten narrestrek. Just a little joke.
- en narrestrek a joke
- liten little, small
Hun sa at alle møblene hennes er borte! She said all her furniture is missing.
- møbler furniture (in Norwegian, this is a plural noun)
- møblene the furniture
- borte gone, missing
Hvor er de? Where is it?
Oppe. Upstairs.
Bare gå opp trappen og da ser du dem. Just go up the stairs and then you’ll see them. (Literally: You see them.)
- trappe stairs
Men vi er på den øverste etasjen. But we’re on the top floor.
- øverste uppermost, top
- en etasje a floor (of a building)
Ja, det vet jeg. Yes, I know (that).
Du satte møblene på taket?! You put the furniture on the roof?!
- et tak a roof
- på taket on the roof
Herregud… Oh my god…
Grammar
Prepositions
Here is a list of commonly used prepositions in Norwegian:
- i in
- på on, at
- om about
- med with
- til till, for, to
- før before
- uten without
- ut out (implies movement)
- ute out, outside (no movement)
- inne inside
- opp up (implies movement)
- oppe up (no movement), upstairs
- med with
- ovenfor above
- etter after
- mot against, toward
- rundt around
- blant among
- under beneath, under
- bak behind
- mellom between
- ved siden av beside
- ned down (implies movement)
- inn into
- i nærheten nearby
- motsatt opposite
- utenfor outside
- over over
- gjennom through
- innen within
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