{"id":130,"date":"2009-08-06T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-08-06T13:09:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T17:09:07","slug":"lange-ord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/lange-ord\/","title":{"rendered":"Lange ord"},"content":{"rendered":"

long words.\u00a0 Norsk <\/strong>is notorious for long words, most of which are conglomerations of several words.\u00a0 A professional linguist would probably be able to tell you why this is the case, but I can give speculation a shot-why create an entirely new word when you can use 2 or more existing words to describe something?\u00a0 Even if it’s longer than it’s English counterpart…no reason, as far as I’m concerned.\u00a0 Norwegian is a simple language and the abundance of words strung together to describe one thing is definite evidence of this simplicity-one of the many reasons I love norsk.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Time to learn some lange ord!<\/strong><\/p>\n

menneskerettighet <\/strong>means human rights (et mennekse <\/strong>is a human, en rettighet <\/strong>is a privilege or right)<\/p>\n

lungebetennelse <\/strong>means pneumonia (en lunge <\/strong>is a lung, en betennelse <\/strong>is an inflammation)<\/p>\n

luftfartsdirektoratet <\/strong>means Civil Aeronautics Administration (luftfart <\/strong>means aviation, et direktorat <\/strong>is a Directorate)<\/p>\n

en forbedringsanstalt <\/strong>is a reformatory (forbedring <\/strong>means improvement and en anstalt <\/strong>is an institution)<\/p>\n

inflytelsesrik <\/strong>means influential (en inflytelse <\/strong>is an influence, rik <\/strong>is rich)<\/p>\n

et helsetilsyn <\/strong>means hygiene (helse <\/strong>is health, et tilsyn <\/strong>is an inspection)<\/p>\n

hemmelighetsfullhet <\/strong>means secretiveness (hemmelig <\/strong>means secret\/confidential, hemmelighet <\/strong>is secrecy, and het <\/strong>is the common subject for abstract nouns, meaning -ity, -ment, or -ness)<\/p>\n

folkevandring <\/strong>means migration of nations (et folk <\/strong>is a people, or in this case a nation, en vandring <\/strong>is a hike, a ramble, or walk)<\/p>\n

et tilleggssp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l\u00a0<\/strong>means\u00a0a supplementary question (tillegg <\/strong>is in addition to, et<\/strong> sp\u00f8rsm\u00e5l <\/strong>is\u00a0a question)<\/p>\n

en standpunktkarakter <\/strong>means a mark based on character (et<\/strong> standpunkt <\/strong>is a standpoint and en karakter <\/strong>is a character)<\/p>\n

et tankeeksperiment<\/strong> is a hypothesis or supposition (en tanke <\/strong>is a thought and et eksperiment <\/strong>is…well I think you can figure it out)<\/p>\n

There are many more of these long word\/multi-words.\u00a0 Of course we have them in English and I imagine in all languages, but norsk <\/strong>seems to have an abundance of them.\u00a0 And aren’t they fun to say?<\/p>\n

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long words.\u00a0 Norsk is notorious for long words, most of which are conglomerations of several words.\u00a0 A professional linguist would probably be able to tell you why this is the case, but I can give speculation a shot-why create an entirely new word when you can use 2 or more existing words to describe something?\u00a0…<\/p>\n

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