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Good morning, and welcome! 🌇☕️ :)This is the first episode of the Beginner Series on the Practice Norwegian Member Podcast, building on the Basic Grammar series!For full transcripts of all the 50 Beginner Episodes, incl. summery of the Basic
Updates! Get new Morning Coffee episodes twice a week - plus 50 beginner episodes, pronunciation, etymology, and over 200 intermediate/advanced episodes! Visit: http://patreon.com/practicenorwegian - Welcome!! 😊..For more reading of Hamsun (
In this episode we'll read further about the starving writer/artist in old Kristiania in the late 18 hundreds - and his venturing out into the streets.Thanks for listening,and enjoy! :)
In this episode we're starting a new little series about small bits of helpful and useful expressions, that are common in everyday speech.And a very helpful way of not repeating the whole phrase in a reponse to a question, we often say f.ex. "
Get new episodes every morning on weekdays! Plus 50 beginner episodes, pronunciation, etymology, and over 100 intermediate/advanced episodes! Visit: http://patreon.com/practicenorwegian - Welcome!! 😊 ..In the episode we'll go through the di
In this episode we'll go through some very common (and consistent) expressions with time prepositions, and these are mostly just for remembering them :)Ex:Han er hos legen.Vi trener om kvelden.Vi skal sove ute i natt.Han spiller gitar på o
In this episode we'll look at the two main ways of saying "I think" in Norwegian, with:synes = opinion (something you have experienced)tror = guessing/believingExamples:Jeg synes filmen var bra.Jeg tror kaken er god.Fill-ins:Jeg har les
In this episode we'll look at the comparative and superlative form of the adjective, which in general is to add "-ere" and "-est".Ex:fin, finere, finestvarm, varmere, varmestFill-ins:Han er ………. i klassen. (høy)Jobben er ………. enn han tro
In this episode we'll look at when to use the "sin" concept, and how to find the right ending.1. The endings follow the object they belong to;Han legger sønnen sin.Han er på øya si.Han vasker huset sitt.Han mister nøklene sine.2. The cond
In this episode we'll hear about the main person thinking about his efforts to get assignments as a writer and applying for work at the local Firestation.He then ventures out into the street, and his moods changes into heightened confidence -
In the episode we'll expand slightly on the topic of the subclauses, and look at what happens if you start a sentence with a subclause.The rule is this;The subclause itself remains exactly the same as before, but afterwards you put a comma, a
In Norwegian language there is a slight change in word order every time you have a subclause with an adverb.Ex:Det er ikke regn. (Normal sentence)Hun sykler fordi det ikke er regn. (Subclause with "fordi")The rule is this:1. subjunksjon (h
In this episode we'll look at how to make specific forms of the nouns with an adjective included. Examples:en stor bil - den store bilenet fint hus - det fine husetmange snille gutter - de snille gutteneThe formula is this:den/det/de + ad
First reading from the novel "Sult" by Knut Hamsun, about a starving artist in Kristiania (Old name for "Oslo") in the late 18 hundreds.The person is waking up and is struggling with his life and his work as a writer, with a vivid inner life.
In this episode we look at three expressions for time:Ago (for .... siden)Duration (i)Future (om)Ex:Ole kom til Norge for fire år siden.Han skal være på ferie i to uker.Berit skal til byen om to timer.Fill-in:Han reiste i fjellet ….. t
The second past tense in Norwegian is called "Perfektum", and is formed as follows:Han rydder stua.Han ryddet stua.Han har ryddet stua.Han spiser middag.Han spiste middag.Han har spist middag.The general rule is this: Put "har" in front,
Get new episodes twice a week! Plus 50 beginner episodes, pronunciation, etymology, and over 200 intermediate/advanced episodes! Visit: http://patreon.com/practicenorwegian - Welcome!! 😊 ..In this episode we'll go through the possessives, a
In this episode we'll go through the "Preteritum" - Simple Past tense!  A big step in language learning and the beginner's level :)The main rule is this: add the ending "-te" or "-et". If you have one consonant towards the end of the verb (in
In this episode we'll look at the reflexive verbs and the pronouns which are:jeg - megdu - deghan/hun - segvi - ossdere - derede - segExamples:Jeg legger meg.Han skynder seg.To make the imperative form, take the infinitive and remover
In this episode we have two items of grammar;First it's the words for this/that, and these/those:Den pennen => Denne pennenDet glasset => Dette glassetDe eplene => Disse epleneAnd secondly;Which = hvilken/hvilket/hvilkeEx:Hvilken gense
Episode 8 (of 8) from the beginning of Marcel Proust's Masterpiece "In Search of Lost Time". The process of falling asleep and waking up has been thoroughly detailed in these opening pages - alluding to the process of imagination, reading, the
Marcel is remembering a series of different rooms from  his childhood, from both summers and winters with joys and troubles, and how the habit is a mitigating mechanism which could help us to accept various situations and environments which we
In Norwegian there are three versions of an adjective; for male/female singular, netural singular, and for the plurals.So a word like "nice" could be "fin", "fint" or "fine".Example:en fin bilet fint husfine kopperFill-ins:en ........ (f
In Norwegian there are two forms of most adverbs like up, down, in, out, home, away etc.One is for standing still or being in the same context, one is for moving or changing context.Example:Han går hjem => Han er hjemme.De går ut => De er u
In Norwegian we have the helping verbs "skal, vil, kan, må" meaning "shall, will, can, must".The general rule is this:Helping verb + infinitve form (without the "å")Examples:Han spiser => Han skal spise.Han sykler => Han må sykle.Changing
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