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Adding Endings Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Oct 19, 2021
![Hale-n til hval-en. (The tail of the whale.) In Norwegian, adding endings to nouns is even more important than in English. (Illustrative photo by xx)](https://blogs.transparent.com/norwegian/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2021/10/simon-infanger-8sMsQZVSYew-unsplash-350x234.jpg)
One of the funny things about Norwegian is that you can’t avoid adding endings to words. Well, of course English learners also sometimes struggle with that – how do you add a plural -s to box? But generally, as long as you know how to add an -s to words, you don’t have to care…
4 ways Norwegian differs from English Posted by Bjørn A. Bojesen on Aug 31, 2019
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For speakers of English, learning Norwegian isn’t that hard: Both languages belong to the Germanic group and have a lot in common. (You can probably guess the meaning of words such as katt, melk, hus.) Still, there are some eye- (or rather ear!) popping differences: • Norwegian has grammatical genders. Every noun is either masculine…