{"id":2418,"date":"2017-12-31T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:50:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:50:43","slug":"looking-back-and-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/looking-back-and-looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back and Looking Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Free image from Pixabay<\/a>, no license.)<\/p><\/div>\n

Da ble det jammen nytt\u00e5r igjen!<\/b> (Then it really became New Year again!) Nytt\u00e5rsaften<\/b> (New Year\u2019s Eve) is a time for looking back at \u00e5ret som gikk<\/b> (the year that went) as well as looking forward to det nye \u00e5ret <\/b>(the new year). Let\u2019s look in both directions in this post. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

To recall something, for example when speaking with your norske venner<\/b> (Norwegian friends), you most often use the past tense. In Norwegian, this usually means that your verb will take the ending –de<\/b>, -te<\/b> or -et <\/b>(lage <\/b>\u201dmake\u201d > lagde <\/b>\u201dmade\u201d; kj\u00f8re<\/b> \u201ddrive\u201d > kj\u00f8rte<\/b> \u201ddrove\u201d; sykle <\/b>\u201dgo by bike\u201d > syklet <\/b>\u201dwent by bike\u201d). Of course, you\u2019ve also got a handful of strong verbs that work similarly as the ones you know from English (synge <\/b>\u201dsing\u201d > sang <\/b>\u201dsang\u201d). Here are some phrases to talk about your opplevelser<\/b> (experiences) in 2017:<\/p>\n