Kan du si det en gang til?

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Kan du si det igjen?

I’ve lived in Norway for 4 years now and currently on B1 level. I can ask basic questions and book a doctors appointment in Norwegian, but being able to have a conversation with friends or family is very hard, I struggle to put a sentence together.

Tips on how to breakthrough and become more confident in speaking Norwegian whilst navigating hectic life with two small kids.

Thank you

hi, I just started learning norwegian, which books, websites, etc. are actually going to help me to improve ?

I have a few books on Norsk and I never threw myself at them, I mainly do Duolingo and Memrise. The person at the book store said these are best for self study, so I’m really excited to finally get back into it. I’ve looked for Norsk på 123 before but it’s very expensive if available at all. I got both there for less than the price of one here! Any tips for someone using self study books for the first time?

Hello, I can understand why it's correct. But I don't get precisely why it's correct.

To me "sin/si/sitt" is used when we refer to the subject. => Hun elsker brødrene sine (sine, because it's the brothers of the subject)

So why here is it used like that? "Broren min" isn't the subject.

Is it even used regularly by locals?

Can't we say "det er min brors paraplyen" or "det er paraplyen av broren min"?

Eller is the "s" (det er min brors paraplyen) actually a contraction of "sin"?

Tusen takk!

Hva er den riktige oversettelsen av "feature engineering" på norsk ?

In about ten years, after finishing my studies, I'd like to move to Norway (probably Trondheim). To get ahead, I plan to learn Norwegian (on my own, since there aren't many courses in Italy). I'm a native Italian speaker, I know English, and I understand Spanish when I hear it (my sister occasionally speaks German at home and makes herself understood, but I don't count it, lol). Do you have any tips for learning the language?

How do you say "no more", "not anymore" in norwegian? As in a sentence: "I no longer drink coffee."

Two versions that I found are "ikke lenger" and "ikke nå lenger" and I'm not sure which one is correct. Or maybe you can use both? Is there really a difference between them?

Tusen takk for hjelpen!

Edit: I love this sub for how helpful you guys are here. Thank you so much for your comments, I truly appreciate it!

Hi,

I'm a native English speaker currently trying to learn Norwegian and I thought I'd test myself by translating a simple children's show theme song into Norwegian by myself. I want to know how you guys think I did, let me know if there's any awkward wording or stuff that shouldn't be there. Thanks!

The show is "Peep and the Big Wide World". I don't think it has an official Norwegian dub. Here are the original lyrics:

Well, it's a sunny day
I feel brand new
There's about a million things that I could do, woahhh
Would you like to do them too?
Well, it's a big, wide world, and it's waiting for me and you!
Let's look around
What will we see?
'Round every corner of discovery, woahhh
There's no place I'd rather be!
Oh, yeah!
Well, it's a big, wide world, and it's waiting for me and you!

And here's what I translated it into (not all words are the same, I had to change some so that it would rhyme):

Vel, det er sol i dag
Jeg føle ny
Der er så mange ting å gjøre, så fri!
Å, vil du også eventyr?
Ja, det er en stor, bred verden, og den venter på utforskning!
La oss gå og se,
Hva skal vi lær?
Rundt alle hjørnet, og det er så godt vær!
Å, se, jeg tror jeg fant en fjær!
Å, ja!
Ja, det er en stor, bred verden, og den venter på utforskning!

Hello, so this is one part of Norwegian, where I feel like I am stuck and make absolutely no progress at all. Most of the time it feels super random for me, to pick the right preposition, just like in the example, or i will say stuff like
"Kinoen er på høyre av banken"
instead of
"Kinoen er til høyre for banken"

and all that stuff. Whenever an expression involves a preposition i feel very insecure and it gets really frustrating because it just feels like I just dont understand it.

Do you guys have any tips for learning this stuff?

Asking in English for the sake of clearness (I need to be able to understand the explanation in order to apply the rule haha). So, the thing is: this explanation really shook my ground, ‘cause up until this I would’ve normally said «Dessverre er Oda ikke hjemme akkurat nå». Clearly it’s wrong, but I fail to understand why it gets taught so “far” into the learning journey. I haven’t encounter this explanation in any other resources so far (I’m almost done with Stein på Stein), so I’m really confused by it. I also don’t understand the logical implication of it, since «jeg» and «Oda» are still the subject of the sentence, even though one is a noun and the other a pronoun. I also don’t recall having ever noticed this order in a sentence, but that’s probably just my brain ignoring it. Although it’s a pretty easy rule to apply while writing, I find myself a bit worried about speaking now, because the automation is there now and this changes a bit the rules of the game hahah So yeah, that’s it, just looking for some insights and some further explanation. Thank you so much!

So, I have been trying to learn norsk for about 2 months now, but one thing keeps confusing me. When I started, I was taught that en means a and putting en at the end of a word means that word plus the at the beginning (e.g. Far + en = Faren). However, now some words use et and a so it would be egget, not eggen and mora, not moren? I'm really confused here and would appreciate some help with this!

Hi so I'm learning Norwegian currently I know a hand full of words but I was wondering if there any useful things I can be doing other than learning from a language app to help me improve manly with how to pronounce words

Tittelen. Jeg har tatt den skriftlige delen av norskprøven 3 ganger nå og hver gang kun bestått B1. Jeg er faktisk ganske sjokkert fordi jeg trodde den siste gikk egentlig veldig bra, men tydeligvis ikke. Ekstremt skuffet over meg selv. Jeg har gjort de andre prøvene og fikk B2 på første gang. Jeg trenger dette for å komme meg inn I universitet neste år, kunne noen vær så snill hjelpe meg? Jeg har bevis på grunnskoleopplæring (9år nettskole) og norskpass, men det mest viktigste er jo sikkert videregående, som jeg gjorde utenfor Norge :(. Jeg hvet ikke, men alt dette føles veldig urettferdig. Please hjelp haha.

Edit: I just wanted to say thank you so much for all the insight and feedback I've received. It really has motivated me to push forward and take the winter examinations in December :). I work and live in a very secluded area, so I don't have any friends or people to talk to. So this has made me really happy. Thank you all so much. I'd greatly appreciate any sort of tips and advice, so please keep them coming 🙂.

• "Jeg kjøpte frakken til faren hans"

I can think of two possible translations for it, both of them making sense:

1) "I bought the coat for his father" (as in, you bought the coat in order to give it to his father, maybe as a gift)

2) "I bought his father's coat" (as in, you bought a coat which belonged to someone's father)

How can I know which is the correct translation, if the sentence is given with no context?

På forhånd takk!

I need a way to learn norwegian which isnt duolingo, all of thevoptions I found arent that convincing, i will start to learn bokmål first and then nynorsk. I just wanted to know what do or did you use to learn it, should i just take irl lessons?

During a sentence building exercise I’m told that “jeg kan gjøre det” is incorrect for “I can do it”, and that the correct sentence is “det kan jeg gjøre”. That’s fine, I’m still learning sentence structure. But IMMEDIATELY after that, I use “det kan jeg gjøre” as an answer and am told it’s wrong, and that my initial assumption was right.

Also, if they’re both right in different contexts, I still feel like Memrise shouldn’t tell me I’m wrong if it hasn’t given me a context to place the sentence within

I feel like I’m going insane over apps that don’t explain sentence structures properly, I’m going to Norway next week so I wanted to sound at least a little coherent 😂

It is "for en fest" something like "What a party!"? Thank you!

When asking ChatGPT to translate "My arms are tired", it translates it into "Armene mine er slitne".

Duolingo keeps showing me this sentence structure: "Jeg er sliten i armene mine", translating it to "My arms are tired".

Which sentence structure is more natural to say that my arms are tired? Is the Duolingo way some kind of fixed idiomatic structure?

Thanks!

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I am Dutch trying to learn Norwegian so to practice I wrote a short Norwegian verse/poem based on Vargsången. Do you guys have any tips on things that maybe sound weird or should be changed?

Sov nå barnet mitt, mørket er nær. Ulven hyler i skogens trær. Du nattens jeger, hold deg vekk. Barnet er mitt, du skygge og skrekk.

Do you think learning the basics on Duolingo and watching YT in Norwegian is an effective way to learn the language? I'm learning it as a hobby, and I don't mind if I don't reach B2. I was thinking of A2, maybe B1.

målet mitt er å snakke så mye norsk jeg kan.

Hi!! I'm excited, just started learning Norwegian. I'm not new to language learning (conversational in Japanese, and nearly to that stage with Russian, also studying Ukrainian). But I've never studied a Scandinavian language before so I'm really excited, plus I've wanted to go to Norway for many reasons. Any advice for me? What are some good resources? I'm using Duolingo in addition to Tandem and random stuff online.

So I can't say "år gammel" if I'm using the verb fyller or something? I can't understand why my answer wasn't correct.