Jeg lærer norsk

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[ilearnnorwegian]

Jeg har nettopp logged in i denne bloggen, for den første gang på lenge  (beklager venner........beklager) og.....hei! Jeg kan ikke tro at dere fortsetter å følger bloggen min....takk, folkens. Jeg skulle prøve å skrive mer...

[wordsnquotes]

forelsket

(noun) A Norwegian untranslatable word, forelsket is defined as the euphoric sensation you feel when you are first falling in love. The feeling is characterized by feelings of anxious anticipation, giddy nervousness, and intense happiness, which point to the beginning of love.

literally: pre-love

(via wordsnquotes)

[jeg-savner-norge]

Useful phrases and words XVII

… university å studere - to study studium (n) - study/studies universitet (n) - university campus (m) - campus bibliotek (n) - library fakultet (n) - faculty institutt (n) - department auditorium (n) - auditorium klasserom (n) - classroom rektor (m) - head master dekanus (m) - head of faculty instituttleder (m) - head of department professor (m) - professor foreleser (m) - lecturer lærer (m) - teacher konsulent (m) - consultant veileder (m) - supervisor student (m) - student et fag (n) - subject studieplan (m) - curriculum forelesning (m) - lecture kurs (n) - course seminar (n) - seminar   workshop (m) - workshop pause (m) - break lekse (f) - lesson/ homework arbeidsbok (f) - workbook ordbok (f) - dictionary tekstbok (f) - textbook avgift (m) - fee semesteravgift (m) - university fee semesterkort (n) - semester card Hva studerer du? - What are you studying? Jeg studerer… - I study… Jeg er student på… - I am a student at… Forelesning begynner… - Lecture begins…

[norwegianstudy]

Interrogative words in Norwegian

How = Hvordan Why = Hvorfor When = Når What = Hva Where = Hvor Whence = Hvorfra (rarely used in everyday speech) Who/Whom = Hvem

Some dialect differences How = Kossen/Koss/Kordan Why = Koffer/Koffår/Keffår When = Kati/Katti/Keti What = Ka/Ke/Kæ Where = Kor Who/Whom = Kem/Ken/Kæm

[jeg-savner-norge]

[knownorwegian]

what is the difference between den and det

First of all, in Norwegian, instead of adding a “the” in front of the word, you add an ending. (“den” and “det” don’t mean “the” - they mean “that”)

To masculine nouns, you add -en. (and start with “en” - “en gutt”)

Boy - gutt

A boy - en gutt

The boy - gutten

To feminine nouns, you add -a.

Girl - jente

A girl - en jente or ei jente

The girl - jenta

To neuter nouns, you add -et.

House - hus

A house - et hus

The house - huset

Den = Masculine and feminine.

Det = Neuter.

Den jenta. (that girl)Den hytta. (that cottage)Den gutten. (that boy)Den mannen. (that man)Den kvinnen. (that woman)Den stolen. (that chair)Det huset. (that house)Det bordet. (that table)Det eplet. (that apple)Det mennesket. (that human)Det dyret. (that animal)

[ilearnnorwegian]

Hvordan kan jeg lære når jeg har ikke tid?! How can I learn when I have no time?!

Our lives become busier and we have so much going on. It's hard to find time to practise learning a language when you're super busy, so when you DO have the free time, the last thing you want to do is sit down with a textbook and learn conjugation. One of the most fun ways to learn a language - in my case, Norwegian - is to immerse yourself in Norwegian media, books, songs and films. You're kind of subconsciously learning the language while being entertained!

I would recommend watching with subtitles in your native language to begin with - it may seem like a cop-out, but you're still listening to your target language. Next, move to watching with subtitles in your target language. And after that, you could try watching it in your target language without subs!

So here's a few suggestions for learning Norwegian through the media!

TV Shows

I kveld med Ylvis - HERE is a link to a Youtube page where you can watch lots of their videos with English subtitles!

Kollektivet on TV2

Lilyhammer (on Netflix!) - this is a great TV show with Steven Van Zandt, and is in half-Norwegian, half-English.

Dag

Helt perfekt

On TVNorge's website, you can watch online all of their shows from A to Å. 

Movies

Død snø

Troll hunter

Få meg på, fy faen

Mannen som elsket Yngve

De gales hus

Kalde føtter

Musicians

Kaizers Orchestra

Lars Vaular

Gabrielle

Skambankt

Razika (my current faves)

Violet Road (ikke på norsk, men....)

But learning a language is no overnight process. The longer you spend working at something, the more it's going to embed itself in your memory - du må gi det tid....

HAVE FUN!

[theylvis-blog]

Visit Original Link

Ylvis talks about Trucker’s Hitch on the Ylvis for Norway- Spotify list.

[whateverlilo]

#translate pls (via tedddy-p)

B: First song, “Trucker’s Hitch”, made in the United States of America

V: It’s allowed to say “Hi” first, but ok, we’ll skip that. It’s the first song..

B: Hi hi

V: Hi.. ehhhhmmmmmm

B: It’s about a knot. There’s not really much more to say about the song “per say”

V: No, you’ll kind of get it. It’s pretty “one to one” as we say in the humour world. What you see is what you get, WYSIWYG.

B: The song is recorded with Stargate. Mikkel Eriksen..

V: Gaup! (Mikkel Gaup is a Norwegian movie director, idk why Vegard found this funny..)

B: No not Mikkel Gaup. Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Erik Hermansen.

V: Mikkel Gaup and Tor Erik Gunstrøm hehe (Gunstrøm is a musician/comedian from the Group Dizzie Tunes)

B: Two bald guys who set fire to everything they owned in Norway and took a boat over.. and really made a name for themselves.

V: Yeah, I gotta say

B: They’ve got a really big studio, they move studios all the time

V: Do you know what? (moves in closer to the mic and starts whispering) Shh

B: This is actually recorded in..

V: Shhh.. If you come close now, I’ll tell you that this song is recorded in Alicia Keys’ studio. That is pretty cool.

B: Yeah, and Alicia Keys came in as we were recording it. And it (the mood) got really awkward..

V: Yeah, and she said “we should definitely hang out” and you could tell she didn’t mean it.

B: It hasn’t..

V: It hasn’t happened

B: She had more..

V: I’ll call Alicia one day

B: She had more gold caps than we had, I feel, when I look back at it. Of all the four white norwegians in the room.. us four of us were perhaps the least hip, and she was maybe a bit cooler than us.

V: But I would say, if we are kind of up and coming, and she’s an established artist, and she’s kind of allowed to wear sweatpants and not give a shit, like Beyonce does..

B: K-nowles

V: K-nowles. Uhh.. she doesn’t have to care, cause she’s up there. We should be the ones who wear golden caps backwards and say yo yo yo yooo look at my bling, motherflippeehh. But it was the other way around.

B: I’ve always thought, when you say motherflipper, it sounds really unhip.

V: Yeah

B: That was just an asterisk/footnote.

V: Yeah but it was..

B: on purpose

V: I think I got it from Flight of the Conchords

B: But sometimes when we’re in the US, you say it for real

V: Motherflippah?

B: *giggles*

V: *giggles too* No I don’t! You can’t sit here and state that (as a fact)

B: I couldn’t resist. The image of it was so.. nice. Ok, anyway, now we’ve namedropped that we fly a lot..

V: No we haven’t said that, but you’ve said it now

B: *laughs* and Alicia Keys.. and we’ve got visas. What a pair of guys we are.. Listen to our song, enjoy yourselves

V: Thanks for the company

B & V: *giggles into fade…*

[vixxe]

thank yoU!

[knownorwegian]

I have a question regarding Norwegian grammar: Why does the possessive pronoun sometimes come after the noun and other times come before it? For example you would say "Her er bilen min" but then you could also say "Dette er min bil", so the "min" switches places. Is there a rule to follow when placing pronouns in a sentence or is it something you just have to know?

In Norwegian you’re supposed to put the pronoun after the noun. “Bilen min” is always the proper way.

However - in Swedish and Danish, you put the noun first(those languages are very similar to Norwegian, if you speak Norwegian you understand most Swedish and Danish). Since you also put the noun first in English and most other languages, I guess Norwegians have been influenced by this - which is why you will hear some Norwegians say “min bil” instead of “bilen min”.So while “min bil” is not the proper way to say it, it actually works.

Oh, and also, if you want to stress that something is belongs to you, putting the pronoun first provides to the message. “Dette er min ting, ikke din!” (this is my thing, not yours).

[languageek]

Sons of Norway - Basic helpful lessons for people wanting to learn Norwegian

A blog about the Norwegian language, you can find some links toward the bottom of this blog post

Surface languages - Every basic thing you would want to and need to know about Norwegian

Digital Dialects - a couple language games for numbers, colors, and phrases/greetings

[knownorwegian]

In Norwegian, you don’t refer to your romantic partner as a “boyfriend” or “girlfriend”. You say “kjæreste”, which is gender neutral and literally translates to “the dearest”.

[knownorwegian]

I think that I can read and speak pretty well, but I have a lot of trouble understanding what people are saying when I listen to spoken norwegian. Any tips at getting better at listening?

Like English-speakers, Norwegians ‘shorten’ sounds a lot.

In English, you know that in casual conversation “I don’t know” is often just pronounced “I dunno”. You know that “what do you want to do” is often pronounced “whaddya wanna do”.

What you have to do is to learn how this works in Norwegian. Like, “hva er det du vil”, is often pronounced “v’erre du vil” or simply “erre du vil”."Skal du ha den?" is often pronounced "skaru ha’n?".

The best thing to do is to simply ask a Norwegian how the different phrases are ‘shortened’ this way.

But also keep in mind that the more you listen to and get used to spoken Norwegian, the more you will understand how the ‘shortenings’ of sounds work — I’d advice you to watch some Norwegian films and TV shows with subtitles in Norwegian, and it will probably come pretty much by itself.

[mapsontheweb]

How to say “I” in various European languages

[ilearnnorwegian]

News Article Translation Of The Day: 6/11/13

Today's article to translate is Klar Tale's Nordisk Musikk Feires I London, which is about a Scandinavian music festival in London. Check out the new vocab below, translate the article and come back and test yourself!

Vocab

feire - celebrate

helg - weekend

blant - among

foregå - take place

utvidelse - expansion

lørdag - Saturday

arrangement - event

klubb - club

i maneden - per month

hver - every, each

utsolgt - sold out

siste - recent

håpe - hope (verb)

kjente - well known

danske - Danish

Island - Iceland

ønske - wish (verb)

vise fram - show off, showcase

etablert - established

mat - food

rett og slett - simply

feiring - celebration

stor - major

by - town

mye - much

sjekke - check

få støtte fra - have support from

godt - well

sammensatt = complex (adjective)

[ilearnnorwegian]

Norwegian Songs - Kjempeform by Ylvis

This song, from 2004, was Ylvis' first music video. Aside from being incredibly baby-faced in this video, it's pretty funny too. Bård causes havoc around the city, while we can spot Vegard at various points in the background - as a policeman, playing guitar at a bus stop, and pulling things out of a bin!

In this song you can really hear this exaggerated rolled r that is not present in the Ylvis-brothers native Bergen dialect (where they use skarre-r, which sounds more guttural). The song is really a parody-cover of old Norwegian popular songs - this one is originally by Ole Ivars - and a translation of kjempeform would be something like on fighting form or fighting fit. Enjoy!

Norwegian Tekst

Jeg er på topp Jeg er på bånn Din skyld at det er sånn Barometeret står på storm Hmm - jeg er i kjempeform

Jeg kanke ligge, Jeg kanke gå Jeg kanke løpe Jeg kanke stå Vrir meg som en orm Hmm - jeg er i kjempeform

Du sier ja Du sier nei Snur rett opp ned på meg Hele jenta smaker sex Jeg skal nok ta deg lille heks Jeg er kald Jeg er varm Jeg er full av kjempesjarm Tar deg med storm Hmm jeg er i kjempeform

English Lyrics

I'm on top I'm at the bottom Your fault, that it's that way The barometer is at storm Hmm - I'm on fighting form!

I can't lie down I can't walk I can't run I can't stand I'm twisting like a worm Hmm I- I'm on fighting form!

You say yes You say no Turn ing me upside down The whole girl tastes like sex I'm gonna get you, little witch I am cold I am warm I am filled with great charm Taking you by storm Hmm - I'm on fighting form!

The song continues, repeating these verses with a bit of ad-libbing from Bård.

[ilearnnorwegian]

Norsk-Scots and Language History

In Northern Europe we have a set of languages - the West Germanic and North Germanic languages - that bear resemblance to and have been influenced by eachother. One could say that if Scandinavia wasn't politically divided into separate countries, the similarity of Norwegian, Danish and Swedish would result in the entire geographical area having a spectrum of the same language featuring differing dialects.

Something that I find really interesting is finding cognates - that's related words with a common etymological origin. Not only does it make language learning easier when you see that activity is activité in French, but it's fascinating to trace the origins of words in this way and see how they have been affected by historical events such as foreign invasion and language shifts, and in this post I'm going to explore the similarities between Norwegian and Scots and the possible age-old reasons for this.

Whilst learning Norwegian, I've come across many words which, while they don't relate directly to Standard English, appear to have cognates in certain regional English dialects and languages such as Scots. (While the status of Scots as language or dialect is a contentious issue and I am not in authority to define it as one or the other, I will refer to Scots as a language in this post.)

To show this, here are some examples of Norwegian words which are relatable to Scots or regional English dialects, but appear to have no relation to their Standard English equivalent (except perhaps know).

Key: Norwegian - Scots (English meaning)

Kjenne - Ken (know)

Barn - Bairn (child)

Gråte - Greetin (cry)

Bra - Braw (good)

Kvinne - Quine (girl/woman)

Royk - Reek (smoke)

In addition, out is pronounced oot in Scots - identical to Norwegian ut, and the English word by-law, meaning a town's law, can be linked to the Norwegian word by - meaning town!

There are plenty of possible geographical and historical reasons for this. For one, the fact that Vikings raided the British Isles for the majority of the 9th Century is clearly a reason for this, and has had an undeniable effect on Scots.

According to the Centre for Scottish Leid, the Norse-influenced Inglish language, which was present in the Scottish Lowlands, was a big influence upon the Scots language; however, it was also influenced by Gaelic, whereas English and Norwegian were not.

We can also see the Norse influence on Scots by observing Scottish place names. Falkirk, for example: where kirk means church in Norwegian. There also exists many places in Scotland and Northern England that feature -by as a suffix - Grimsby, Whitby, Lockerbie - and when we know that by is the Norwegian word for town, we can identify the Norse influence in these areas, a legacy from historical Viking invasion.

It could be said that if English didn't go through the great vowel shift, then we would sound very much like Norwegian or other Scandinavian languages today.

[ilearnnorwegian]

News Article Translation Of The Day - Tuesday 29/10

Here's the vocab from the article I translated yesterday, from Vet Ikke Om Hun Er Blitt Overvåket.

overvåket - monitored, bugged

statsleder - state leader

avlyttet - bugged

greit - okay

flere - multiple

dreie - turn (in the context of the article, it meant involve)

om - if, about, whether

avisa - newspaper

tett - closely

samarbeid - collaboration

innen - within

hverandre - eachother

etterretning - intelligence

betyr - mean (verb)

mye - many, a lot

skape - create

mistillit - mistrust

uro - unease

uttalelse - statement

tidligere - former

heller - either

utelukke - rule out

skjedde - happened

kanal - channel

fortelle - tell

diskutert - discussed

besøke - visit (verb)

Sverige - Sweden

varsler - whistleblower

avsløre - reveal

telefon - telephone

internett - internet

valgte - selected

understreke - emphasise, stress

kamp - struggle, fight, game

mot - against

enig - agree

drev - drive

ulovlig - illegal

venner - friends

tillit - confidence