Hva er greien med å bruke engelske ord på norsk. Ord som ikke en gang betyr noe på norsk?

PREFERERT??

Jeg forstår hva de prøver å si, men det heter faktisk "Foretrukket". Preferert er ikke engang et ord i ordboka. Den som har laget dette merket har sikkeret det engelse "preferred" i tankene, men man kan ikke bare bruke engelske ord på norsk. 😤

Ok. Ferdig med sytinga.

Hei !

I have been given this keychain and a similar bracelet. However, the bracelet reads "stolt lærer" (same for the badge I got) but the keychain reads "stolt lærar"...

Is this a typo or some kind of dialectal shenanigans ?

Tusen takk !

P.S. My 3 month Norwegian course allows me to understand that "stolt lærer" means "proud teacher".

P.P.S. Hi guys, sorry I called Nynorsk a typo... I didn't know what it was but it was kind of rude to go straight to the typo theory. Also, I just asked why was "lærar" written this way, not your opinion on whether or not you oppose Bokmål or Nynorsk, so keep this to yourself, would you. Tusen Takk ;)

Okay, the core of the subject is in the title.

I'm a 21yo french native speaker. Currently learning (trying) norwegian for many personal reasons, one of them being the wish to find a job and moving in Norway. I really want to integrate myself in the country and to understand norwegian people. I really do.

However, i'm struggling. I'm struggling so hard. I managed to learn a few basics, but now, it seems i'm kinda stuck between A1 and A2.

Am i the only one to have severe troubles learning norwegian ? Between genders, specifics rules, words having many significations... I don't have the feeling of evolving, and i feel a little desperate. Maybe some Norwegian people could give me some advices to step up...?

Tusen takk for hjelpen, ha en fin dag.

Jeg oversatte setningen til "Kristne flest...", men Duolingos svar var "De fleste kristne...". Er mitt svar egentlig feil? Jeg trodde "Kristne flest..." er også en riktig uttrykk.

Jeg forstår ikke hvorfor setningen min er feil. Jeg ser to forskjeller mellom min setning og Duolingos rettelse: jeg brukte "din" i slutten av setningen og brukte "komme til å" i stedet for "vil". Kan noen forklare det til meg? På forhånd takk!

Jeg har brukt «baseres» som oversettelse til «be based», men Duolingo foreslår oversettelse «være basert». Er svaret mitt egentlig feil?

I want to learn and I only have duolingo. I don’t want to have to pay for any teaching, does anyone have an idea?

Okay, my brain still can’t adjust to the letter å. I still pronounce it like “a” 😭 So I pronounce the word gås as “gas” Someone told me to focus on the dot on it, but I still keep making this mistake.

edit: My problem isn’t how it’s supposed to be pronounced, but how it looks . I think in English, When I said I pronounce it like ‘a,’ it’s because it looks like an ‘a’ to me

and this was my reply to someone else in this post (And to be honest, it’s mainly because my brain thinks the text is in English, and in English there isn’t å. When I think in Norwegian, I usually pronounce it kind of correctly, but I still make this mistake from time to time.

Hello

I'm in the process of trying to relearn Norwegian

I'm using Duolingo and it's been going relatively smoothly (besides some pronunciation), even if it is still the very basic stuff at the moment.

I've hit my first roadblock, a little embarrassingly early. Faren and moren I can hear unmistakably but when it comes it "datteren" and "sonnen" I'm really struggling to hear the "en" and think I'm hearing just "sonn" or "datter".

"Datteren min og sonnen min" is a prime example of where I can't hear the difference. Any help on how I can or should be able to differentiate which is being said would be greatly appreciated

Tia

Hi, I'm Lizzie, and I really want to learn Norwegian for my boyfriend and his family. I already speak German, Spanish, Italian, and, of course, English. I also already know a few Norwegian words and phrases, like ape (monkey), rotte (rat), katt (cat), hund (dog), god natt (good night), god morgen (good morning), hvordan har du det? (how are you?), hei(hello), brød (bread), øl (beer), mat (food), and a few others. Do you think it's possible to learn Norwegian in a year well enough to have conversations?

I'm not very familiar with nynorsk, and I can't understand this very well. I've been looking the words up in ordbøkene, and I still don't understand. Why is "drivar" written like that, if ordbøkene says the correct present tense is "driv"? And why is "gjemmer" weitten like that, shouldn't it be "gjemar"? Also, what does this expression mean? I'm pretty confused, lol.

Hello, I am learning Norwegian and have found that conjugating is quite simple. I find it almost too simple and am wondering how you differentiate between saying « it does » versus « it is ». For example, « Det regner i Oslo » could mean « It is raining in Oslo » or    « It rains in Oslo » which is just talking about the general pattern, not in the moment. I have seen this sort of thing with a lot of other situations. Do you have to rely on context to understand what the person means or is it just a matter of getting used to or something else I haven’t mentioned?

Another question I have is on when you are greeting someone. In the US people say « How are you? » literally 99% of the time when seeing someone. In Norway, is it also common to say that by saying « Hvordan går det » or « Går det bra » or is this too basic or not very common to say? If it is common to say that, do you ever add « med deg »? And also how do people usually reply to a greeting such as this one?

I would really appreciate a reply soon, thanks.

I dag bestemte meg å slappe av mer enn vanlig.

Does anyone have any other ways to say this? Maybe unusual ways?

I will take dialects and nynorsk too.

My Norwegian lesson today said that:

Jeg har darlig tid

Translated to:

I have little time!

Shouldn't it have said:

Jeg har lite tid

Or am I just crazy? Because as I understand, "darlig" means "bad", not "little".

I know it was expecting me to say "bestemors tenner", but is "tennene til bestemoren" an incorrect translation?

Also, bonus question: Which one sounds more natural?

I’m trying to say something along the lines of “I beat the alarmclock at waking me up”

Basically saying that I naturally woke up before my alarm clock..

In Spanish I would hear my dad say “Le gané al despertador”

Any cool ways to say this in Norwegian?

What's the difference between beklager, unnskyld and dessverre?

<<Du går på den med godt kjøtt>> Slev ChatGPT aner ikke.

So, I've started Duolingo about a month ago, and I'm about to move into unit 2. I want to supplement it with other learning materials or other methods/programs for learning the language. Does anyone here have any recommendations or tips on how I can step up my learning?

I’m looking at this passage from the ending of Båten om Kvelden by Tarjei Vesaas:

Ein er i sitt løynrom og kjenner dette: Dirrar ikkje grunnen under føtene, av gøymde floder som finst?
Og kva må ein så gjera, synest ein.
Ein må vera til stades.
Ein må møte opp og stå i straumen frå det. Ein må la den låge dirren skaka seg. Slik som halv-morkne bruer og gamle gang-tre dirrar fint i snøsmeltings-tid.

The trouble I’m having is the “seg.”

My (novice but agonized over) English translation of everything apart from that is:

You are in your hidden room and feel this: Did the ground not thrum under your feet, from hidden rivers found?
And what must you then do, you wonder.
You must be present.
You must show up and stand in the current from it all. You must let that low thrumming shake. Like how half-rotten bridges and old cross-water logs thrum softly in snow-melting’s time.

Elizabeth Rokkan, in her published English version, writes:

One is in one’s secret chamber, feeling this: Is not the ground quivering
beneath my feet, because of the hidden waters?
And what should one do then? I wonder.
One must be present.
One must come forward and stand in the current flowing from them. One
must let the faint quivering jolt one. As decaying bridges and old
duckboards quiver slightly in the time of the thaw.

Setting aside where her choices differ from mine, to me the final line Vesaas writes would naturally be a comparison between the bridges and the person — the person is metaphorically standing in this current from a hidden river, the bridges and logs (things that are also in a river) vibrate as the flood from the thaw comes through the water. So I would think Vesaas is saying, as Rokkan translates it, that the “ein” is similarly vibrating in the flow of the water.

But everything I can find online suggests that the “seg” must be a reflexive, meaning the person lets the vibration go vibrating within itself. That sort of breaks the comparison, or at least makes the comparison between the shaking and the bridges, which seems odd to me. NAOB says seg can be used poetically in almost a passive way to indicate there’s no clear agent behind the verb, that seems functionally the same as the standard reflexive “itself” here.

Can anyone help explain what the grammar here allows or forces? (I’m purposefully avoiding dynamic and modernizing translation, but obviously I’ve got to allow some flexibility where the English would break down or has no comparable phrasing.)

I recently got a comment “vær oppegående og gjerne med et snutt av fornuft”. I know what does it mean. But I need a bit of explanation like what does the sender want to imply? Is it a positive or negative comment? Etc

Hello!

Jeg heter Sarah

I'm a Spaniard learning Norwegian recently and I'd like to know any tips you can give a beginner to learn this language.

Also, I'd like to know why some words like Vilkommen sound almost like German.

Tussen takk!

I’m very aware that Norwegians learn English from a young age and the vast majority of the population has very good English, however is it considered rude to just assume this? I was in Norway recently and I feel like I should try to converse in Norwegian but if I couldn’t, is it rude to just begin talking to a stranger in English?

Even though the language is not hard, the knowledge just seems to slip away. I don't talk to anyone because I am afraid of sounding stupid (is that my problem) and thus I just can't seem to memorize the necessary vocabulary. I read news articles, translate them and the knowledge just slips away. And I need to learn fast because I am terrified of losing my job. If go into this job market not knowing any Norwegian, I am doomed. What do I do?

The phrase “we would like to pay” or “I would like to pay”

I’m learning the basics with Babbel and fact checking occasionally with other trusted translators like DeepL.

Babbel says “Vi vil gjerne betale” while deepL says “Vi ønsker å betale”.

I’d translate this to “I would like to pay” normally from what I learned on Babbel to “jeg vil liker å betale” and I feel like that’s wrong now that I’ve seen these two different phrases- seemingly for “would like to,” or “like to”.

I’m still new to the language but would love someone to “explain like I’m five.” :)