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	Norwegian Bokmål	English
#6	Norwegian Bokmål by Knut
	Limargia titta rundt i rommet og spurte meg, "pakka du tinga dine og deretter? Idiot! Du presser oppi kofferten til det flommer over!" Jeg svarte, "Nehei! Ingen har rørt tinga mine, så det så. Det har alltid vært sånn."	Limargia looked around the room and asked me, "did you pack your stuff and afterwards? Idiot! You're cramming into the suitcase until it overflows!" I replied, "Nuh-uh! No one's touched my stuff, as a matter of fact. It's always been like this."

LEXICON

deretter	adverb	afterwards, thereafter
flomme	verb	flow, flood
ha	verb	to have
i	prep.	in
idiot	noun	idiot
koffert	noun	suitcase
Limargia	noun	given name of Romansh origin
nehei	int.	emphatic negatory pro-sentence, "nuh-uh!"
og	conj.	and
oppi	prep.	into (a container filled from the top)
over	adverb	over, above
pakke	verb	to pack
presse	verb	to press, cram, stuff
rom	noun	room
rundt	adverb	around
røre	verb	to touch, mess with
spøre	verb	to ask
svare	verb	to answer, reply
så	conj.	so
til	prep.	to, until
ting	noun	thing
titte	verb	to peek, look
være	verb	to be

GRAMMAR

Pronouns, Quantifiers, and Other Pro-forms

Some words that I'd rather put in the lexicon section have instead been moved here for concistency's sake.
So as to not make things more bullshit, I've listed all the relevant forms separately:

jeg	first person singular nominative
meg	-----------\|\|-------- oblique
mine	-----------\|\|-------- possessor of plural entities
du	second person singular nominative
deg	-----------\|\|--------- oblique
dine	-----------\|\|--------- possessor of plural entities
det	distal neuter singular demonstrative pronoun, "it/that"; indefinite person (e.g. det regner - "it's raining")
ingen	no one
sånn	(like) so, in this manner
alltid	always

Nouns

Fortunately, all nouns included in this text are regular. Below are all the relevant declensions:

-a	masculine/neuter definite plural
-en	masculine definite singular
-et	neuter definite singular

Verbs

The majority of the included verbs are regular. There's one trace of Old Norse weirdness, but I believe it's transparent enough (or can at least be inferred) to not warrant an "irregular verbs" section.
Below are all the relevant conjugations:

-r, -er	present tense
-a, -te	preterite tense
-a, -t	passive participle (coupled with auxilliary verb "ha" forms perfect tense)

Syntax

Norwegian Bokmål is SVO with V2 word order. Auxilliary verbs take the verb slot whenever present in a verb phrase.