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Svake verber Posted by kari on Oct 19, 2009
Weak verbs. Norwegian has both svake verber (endings are added to the root of the verb to form the past tense-preteritum) and sterke verber (this involves a vowel change in the root and there is often no ending at all). There are many fewer sterke verber than there are svake verber, so I recommend familiarizing yourself with the…
Negation Posted by kari on Oct 14, 2009
The time is ripe to talk about negation, although many of you have probably caught on to the methods of negation på norsk-that is-how to deny that something is true. There are several different words to use, the most common of course is ikke, which means ‘not.’ One can also use knapt (hardly) and alldri…
Følelser Posted by kari on Oct 13, 2009
Feelings. You may have heard before that in an initial encounter, at least, Norwegians are cold, unfriendly, and sometimes seemingly emotionless people. If you are from the midwest, you probably hear this about your neighbors (and perhaps yourselves) who descend from northern Europeans. This is a stereotype to which I do not fully subscribe, for I have…
Hver dag. Posted by kari on Oct 7, 2009
Every day. I’m getting into this theme of things we do daglig (daily). Of course some of the things I do in my dagligliv (daily life), you do not do and some of the things you do in your dagligliv, I do not do. However, many of the things we do in our dagligeliv (notice…
Daglige ord Posted by kari on Oct 4, 2009
Daily words. There are certain ord (words) or fraser (phrases) that you will most likely use throughout the course of a day. Some of these are also ord that are nearly imerative while traveling in a country in which most people do not speak your language, but let’s pretend we are natives. I am going to list…
Prepososjoner-part II Posted by kari on Oct 2, 2009
Prepositions part II. In the last post, I gave you example sentences that used preposisjoner to describe location. I used subjects that one finds i (in), på (on), under (under), over (over), mellom (between), ved siden av (next to), bak (behind), foran (in front of)…things in and around a house. I still think that’s the…
preposisjoner i bruk Posted by kari on Sep 27, 2009
prepositions in use. That’s what we’re going to go over today. In the last post I explained the role of a preposisjon and gave many eksempler. Now I think it is appropriate to highlight preposisjoner in sentences so that you can see how they are used. It’s hard to say much without using a preposisjon and…