Norwegian lesson 11

Dialogue

Vocabulary and Phrases

Om ettermiddagen holder den norske klubben sitt månedlige møte. Det banker på døren. Birgitte svarer. Uten står to menn med tjue pizzaer. In the afternoon, the Norwegian club is holding their monthly meeting. There is a knock on the door. Birgitte answers. Outside, two men stand with twenty pizzas.

• ettermiddagen afternoon
• en klubb a club
• månedlige monthly
• møte meeting
• å banke to knock

Vi har ikke bestilt noe. Dessuten er vi da bare ti personer her, så tjue pizzaer hadde blitt i meste laget for å si det mildt. We haven’t ordered anything. Besides, there are only ten people here, so twenty pizzas would have been too much, to put it mildly.

• å bestille to order
• dessuten furthermore, besides
• i meste laget too much
• for å si det mildt to put it mildly

Det er sikkert svenskene igjen. It is definitely the Swedes again.

• sikkert certainly, likely
• svenskene the Swedes

De tror at de er morsomme. They think (that) they’re funny.

• morsom funny

Vi skal fikse det. We’ll fix that.

• å fikse to fix

Men hvordan? But how?

Etter møtet står studentene utendørs. De ser en gaffeltruck med nøklene i. I nærheten står bilen til Sara Lindgren som er svensklærer. After the meeting, the students stand outside. They see a forklift with the keys in it. Nearby is Sara Lindgren’s -who is a Swedish teacher – car.

• studentene the students
• utendørs outdoors, outside
• en gaffeltruck a forklift
• en nøkkel a key (plural nøkler)
• nøklene the keys

Tenker dere hva jeg tenker? Are you (all) thinking what I’m thinking?

• å tenke to think

Kanskje… Maybe…

Neste dag… The next day…

Birgitte ser en gruppe norske studenter på gangen. Birgitte sees en group of Norwegian students in the hallway.

• en gang a hallway

Hva har dere gjort?! What have you (all) done?

Ingenting. Nothing.

Men bilen til Sara står på taket! But Sara’s car is on the roof!

• en bil a car
• et tak a roof

Og? And?

Kom igjen da, jeg vet det må være dere. Det er bare dere som kunne gjort dette. Ta den ned nå. Come on, I know it must have been you (all). Only you (all) could have done this.

• ned down

Studentene sukker mens de går bort. The students sigh as they walk away.

• å sukke to sigh
• bort away

 

Grammar

More on possessives

In the last lesson, you watched a video about possessive pronouns. But what if you want to refer to, for example, Sara’s car or your sister’s house? One way is by adding ‘s‘ to the noun (i.e. Saras bil). Another way would be to say bilen til Sara or huset til søsteren din/søstera di. Note that when using the second method, as demonstrated in the dialogue, the item possessed is put into definite form (bilen, huset) followed by the preposition til and then the person owning the item (Sara, søsteren din/søstera di).