{"id":56,"date":"2009-02-17T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T13:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=56"},"modified":"2009-02-17T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T13:42:50","slug":"inversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/inversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Inversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Norwegian, sentence structure is fairly painless.\u00a0 Normally, the parts of speech follow the same pattern as they do in English.\u00a0 Subject, verb, object. <strong>Han g\u00e5r til butikken <\/strong>(he goes to the store.\u00a0 <strong>Jeg spiser frokost n\u00e5r jeg v\u00e5kner <\/strong>(I eat breakfast when I wake up).\u00a0 Notice that the <strong>til <\/strong>(to) and <strong>n\u00e5r\u00a0<\/strong>(when)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>fall after the verb in the sentence.\u00a0 The placement of prepositions and adverbs, as well as prepositional phrases decides where the verb in the sentence will be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, If I say, <strong>Det er en kopp\u00a0i skapet <\/strong>(There is a cup in the cupboard), the verb is in the second place between the subject and object, like normal.\u00a0 But if I place the preposition first and say <strong>I skapet er det en kopp, <\/strong>you will notice that the verb is still in second place, but it preceeds the subject.\u00a0\u00a0 This rule is called inversion.\u00a0 Here is another example of inversion with a preposition:\u00a0 <strong>Under treet sover en katt <\/strong>(Under the tree a cat is sleeping).\u00a0 Since <strong>under <\/strong>(under-a great cognate) is a preposition, <strong>sover <\/strong>(present tense of &#8216;to sleep&#8217;) comes in second place (<strong>under treet <\/strong>is &#8216;under the tree&#8217;) and the subject last (<strong>en katt &#8211; <\/strong>a cat).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look a few examples with adverbs. <strong>I morgen kommer det en storm <\/strong>(Tomorrow a storm is coming).\u00a0 Since<strong> I morgen,<\/strong> (tomorrow) is an adverb, we use inversion and place the verb second in the sentence before the subject (<strong>det-<\/strong>in this case stands for &#8216;there&#8217; as in &#8216;there is a storm coming&#8217;).\u00a0 <strong>I dag regner det <\/strong>(It is raining today). Again, since <strong>i dag <\/strong>(today) is an adverb, the rule of inversion says to place <strong>regner <\/strong>(present tense of &#8216;to rain&#8217;) second and <strong>det <\/strong>(in this case &#8216;it&#8217;).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0There are a couple more examples of times when you would want to use inversion, but I will go over those in a later post.\u00a0 This is a fairly simple rule that just requires flopping some sentence parts around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Norwegian, sentence structure is fairly painless.\u00a0 Normally, the parts of speech follow the same pattern as they do in English.\u00a0 Subject, verb, object. Han g\u00e5r til butikken (he goes to the store.\u00a0 Jeg spiser frokost n\u00e5r jeg v\u00e5kner (I eat breakfast when I wake up).\u00a0 Notice that the til (to) and n\u00e5r\u00a0(when)\u00a0fall after the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/inversion\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}