You were probably wondering when I would get into adjectives.\u00a0 Today is your lucky day!\u00a0 Don’t worry-they really aren’t that painful.\u00a0 I’ve said before that pronunciation is the most difficult part of learning the Norwegian language and the grammar is the easy part.\u00a0 Adjectives are no exception to this rule.\u00a0 As long as you follow a few simple rules, you should be ok.<\/p>\n
As you probably already know, there are 3 genders in the Norwegian language: female, male, and neuter.\u00a0 When a noun is single and either feminine or masculine, the adjective remains the same.\u00a0 For example, if you want to talk about\u00a0a red car (en<\/strong> r\u00f8d bil), <\/strong>red remains r\u00f8d <\/strong>and in ei bl\u00e5 klokke, <\/strong>blue\u00a0<\/strong>remains bl\u00e5.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n However, if the singular noun is neuter and you want to describe it with the adjective ‘big’ (stor),<\/strong> in the case of a big tree et stort tre <\/strong>(a big tree), stor <\/strong>becomes stort.\u00a0 <\/strong>Let’s try another example of a singular neuter noun: et kj\u00f8kken <\/strong>(a kitchen) that you want to describe as long (lang), <\/strong>you would say et langt kj\u00f8kken.<\/strong>\u00a0 So the rule is that if you want to describe a singular neuter noun, the adjective will get a ‘t’ at the end.\u00a0 Don’t ask why it’s a ‘t’ because I’m not sure there is a good reason.<\/p>\n Now, let’s move on to the plural form of nouns and how that affects adjectives.\u00a0 If we want to describe two red cars (notice this would be indefinite plural since we are not specifying which 2 red cars), we will add an ‘e’ to the adjective and an ‘er’ to the end\u00a0of the noun (as long as the noun is feminine or masculine-remember neuter nouns in the plural do not obtain anything extra in the\u00a0indefinite form)\u00a0—to r\u00f8de biler.\u00a0 <\/strong>Another example would be 3 blue clocks-tre bl\u00e5e klokker.\u00a0 <\/strong>If we want to describe 4\u00a0big children we would say fire store barn <\/strong>(note the lack of added letters to the word ‘barn<\/strong>‘).\u00a0<\/p>\n So what about describing nouns in the definite plural form?\u00a0 Whether the noun is feminine, masculine, or neuter, the format is going to be the same.\u00a0 The yellow balls (de gule ballene), <\/strong>the\u00a0nice men (de\u00a0snille mennene), <\/strong>or the\u00a0mean women (de slemme kvinnene).\u00a0 <\/strong>Notice the ‘de’ in front of the adjective-this represents ‘the.’\u00a0 The ‘ene’ at the end of the adjective just reaffirms that we are talking about the definite plural form.\u00a0<\/p>\n Pretty simple, huh?\u00a0 The only thing that gets a little confusing is the exceptions to the rule.\u00a0 You knew there would be exceptions, right?\u00a0 One example that comes to my mind is the adjective vakker <\/strong>(pretty).\u00a0 In the singular form, the adjective remains the same regardless of the gender of the noun.\u00a0 However, when you make the adjective plural, it becomes\u00a0 vakre.\u00a0 <\/strong>There are several other irregular adjectives like this, but you will learn them as you go.\u00a0 I promise.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You were probably wondering when I would get into adjectives.\u00a0 Today is your lucky day!\u00a0 Don’t worry-they really aren’t that painful.\u00a0 I’ve said before that pronunciation is the most difficult part of learning the Norwegian language and the grammar is the easy part.\u00a0 Adjectives are no exception to this rule.\u00a0 As long as you follow…<\/p>\n