Dictionary
Verbs
- å bu - to live, to reside
- å elska - to love
- å feira - to celebrate
- å finna - to find
- å flyga - to fly
- å fylgja - to follow
- å gjera - to make, to do
- å ha - to have
- å kunna - to be able to, to have competency in something
- å røra - to touch
- å sjå - to see
- å sukka - to sigh
- å vera - to be
- å vilja - to want, to will
Nouns/Pronouns/Determiners
- alt - everything (neuter form of all)
- auga - eye (neuter)
- deg - second person singular object pronoun
- dei - third person plural subject and object pronoun
- den - generally "the," determiner for masculine and feminine nouns
- det - generally "it" or "that," can also mean "the," determiner and pronoun for neuter nouns
- eg - first person singular subject pronoun
- landskap - landscape (neuter)
- som - connects a noun phrase with phrase that tells something more about it or what it does
- to - two
- univers - universe (neuter)
- verd - world (feminine)
Adjectives/Adverbs
- ganske - very
- ikkje - not
- nok - enough, sufficient
- overalt - everywhere
- stor - large, great
- straks - now, immediately
- uansett - regardless
Conjunctions
Prepositions
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Grammar
Norwegian is a SVO language with V2 word order being the main rule for structuring sentences. Among other situations, this comes into play when a dependent clause stands first in the sentence. The dependent clause will be in the first position, then the finite verb will be in the second position. For example:
- Eg kan forsikra deg at bilen var rask.
- I can assure you that the car was fast.
- At bilen var rask, kan eg forsikra deg.
- That the car was fast, I can assure you.
Verbs that follow modal helping verbs, in any tense, are in the infinitive form. These modal helping verbs include _å ha_ (to have), _å vilja_ (to want), _å kunna_ (to be able to), etc. "Å" is the infinitive marker. 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. Adjectives and determiners are declined for gender and number, with -e usually used in conjunction with plural quantities and for definite forms (explained below). In line with the noun declensions below, most adjectives use some form of a -t suffix for neuter nouns. Lastly, there is a feature of Norwegian referred to as the "double definite." When describing a specific object or set of object, you use the definite forms of the adjective and noun. To speak of the fast car above, we'd say, _den raske bilen_ (the fast car). Standard noun declensions
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
Standard verb conjugations (the first two are 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
Non-standard inflections
- eit auga - an eye
- augo - eyes
- å kunna - to be able to, to have competency in something
- kan - can, has/have competency in something
- å sjå - to see
- ser - see/sees
- å vera - to be
- er - am/are
- å vilja - to want, to will
- vil - want/wants, will/wills
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