Vocabulary (in order of appearance)
- han - (pronoun) third person, singular, masculine, subject form
- å elska - (verb) to love
- deg - (pronoun) second person, singular, object form
- til - (preposition) generally used to express travel/motion towards a destination
- evig - (adjective) eternal
- tid - (noun) time
- bein - (noun) bone
- dine - (determiner) second person plural possessive
- å byrja - (verb) to begin
- å verta - (verb) to become
- pinefull - (adjective) painful
- rygg - (noun) back
- hans - (pronoun) genitive form of "han"
- au - (adverb) also
- du - (pronoun) second person, singular, subject form
- å sveitta - (verb) to sweat
- å ha - (verb) to have
- ingen - (determiner) not any (of a given thing)
- grunn - (noun) reason
- å ergra - (verb) to annoy
- å skjelva - (verb) to shiver
- vekke - (adverb) away
- frå - (preposition) from
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Grammar
Norwegian is a SVO language with V2 word order. Nouns in Norwegian Nynorsk have (usually) one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, or neuter. Each category has its own articles and declensions. Various suffixes form these declensions, including for the definite articles. Adjectives and determiners are declined for gender and number, with -e usually used in conjunction with plural quantities. Here are examples of the declensions for each gender:
- Masculine: ein vegg - a wall, veggen - the wall, veggar - walls, veggane - the walls
- Feminine: ei gate - a street, gata - the street, gater - streets, gatene - the streets
- Neuter: eit språk - a language, språket - the language, språk - languages, språka - the languages
Here are examples of verb tenses and inflection, the first two weak, the third strong:
- å putta - to put, puttar - puts/am putting, putta - put, har putta - has put
- å laupa - to run, lauper - runs/am running, laupte - ran, har laupt - has run
- å finna - to find, finn - finds/am finding, fann - found, har funne - has found
There are two primary ways to show possession: "<possessive pronoun> <noun>" or "<definite form of noun> <possessive pronoun>." Semicolons join two independent clauses.
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