I think it’s about time I address the concept of time since there are so many words that describe it and stand for it.  You might be wondering what I mean.  I mean days of the week, months in the year, long ago, in the future, tomorrow, etc.  So we’ll be looking at both nouns and adverbs.  Let’s start learning about tid (time)-pronounced “teeeed” with a soft “d”

First, let’s go through the months of the year.  Notice that they are not capitalized (unless of course they begin a sentence, which they rarely ever do).  I will list them in chronological order.

januar pronounced “yahn-you-ahr”

februar pronounced “feb-roo-ahr”

mars pronounced “marsh”

april pronounced “ah-preel”

mai pronounced “my” but the ‘ai’ is a dipthong so you say the ‘a’ first and then the ‘i’ so it sounds a bit different than ‘y’

juni pronounced “yoo-nee”

juli pronouned “yoo-lee”

august pronouned “ow-goost”–refer to the post I wrote on vowels to learn more about the ‘u‘ sound.

september pronounced “september” with a flipped ‘r‘

oktober pronouned “ohk-toh-ber” with a flipped ‘r‘

november pronounced “no-vem-ber” with a flipped ‘r‘

desember pronounced “deh-sem-ber” with a flipped ‘r‘

Mostly cognates, piece of cake, right?  Just remember some of the minor spelling differences

Ok, on to days of the week…

mandag pronounced “mahn-dog”

tirsdag pronounced “teersh-dog”

onsdag pronounced “oons-dog”

torsdag pronounced “toorsh-dog”

fredag pronounced “fray-dog”

lørdag pronounced “lur-dog”

søndag pronounced “suhn-dog”  (consult vowel post for details on the “ø” sound

Ok, now here are some other important words that are associated with time.

et minutt -a minute

en time an hour (pronounced “teem-eh”)

en dag a day (pronounced “dog”)

en uke a week (pronounced “ook-eh”)

en måned a month (pronounced “moan-ed”)

et år a year (pronounced “oar”)

et tiår a decade (pronouned “tee-oar”)

And then we have seasons….

sommer (summer), høst (fall), vinter (winter), and vår (spring).

Now a few adverbs to finish the tid tema (time theme)

i dag – today (i is pronouned “ee”)

i morgen – tomorrow

i går – yesterday

i år – this year

neste år – next year

i fjor – last year

nå – now

da – then

I think that’s enough for now, but if I think of any more, I’ll write another post.  Perhaps next post I will try to use most of these words in sentences and write a little story. 

Nå er det tid for meg å spise frokost og gjøre meg klar til arbeid.  Now it’s time for me to eat breakfast and get ready for work.