If someone calls you and you can\u2019t hear the person, your word-of-choice should be hallo?<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course there are also the good something!<\/em> kind of greetings. Like when you meet somenone in the morning, you say god morgen<\/strong> [goh MOORen], in the middle of the day the words to use are god dag<\/strong> [goh DAHG], and in the evening you go for god kveld<\/strong> [goh KVELL]. Please note that \u201dgood day\u201d doesn\u2019t sound strange in Norwegian \u2013 it\u2019s a totally natural thing to say.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re in Norway and take a stroll after dark, however, it\u2019s a bad idea to greet strangers with god natt<\/strong> [goh NATT] (good night), no matter how beautiful the stars are! They\u2019ll think you\u2019re leaving for bed, or expecting them<\/em> to do it!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This brings us over to taking leave. The normal way to say bye<\/em> in Norwegian is<\/p>\n ha det!<\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019ve only listened<\/em> to Norwegian, you might assume it should be written \u201dhade<\/em>\u201d [HAHdeh], as that\u2019s the way it\u2019s pronounced. The expression actually comes from ha det bra!<\/strong> [HAHdeh BRAH], which means \u201dhave it good!\u201d You\u2019re basically wishing someone a good time. Now, isn\u2019t that a nice way to leave a person?<\/p>\n And I\u2019ll end this post by saying vi snakkes! <\/strong>(talk to you later!) and wishing you lykke til<\/strong> (good luck) with your language studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Having your first conversation in a foreign language is always a feat. If you know how to say \u201dhello\u201d and \u201dgoodbye\u201d, you have the tools to break the ice \u2013 and to sneak away, if the whole thing gets too embarrassing! Hei! is the normal way to say \u201dhi!\u201d The sound lies somewhere between English…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2013\/05\/Hello.png.png\")