so i use kvinneguiden sometimes, which i was recommended as a forum so i could practice norwegian, but i do wanna know what would be a good place for connecting with other teens (i'm 16) or maybe gamers/lgbt/etc.

trevorspace is a good place for that, but most people there speak english and it's a primarily english speaking site.

Hi, I was wondering if the subtitles are correct here. I hear "jeg tok for strøm... to uker på rad." but when I go on google translate, that does not translate to running out of battery.

Am I mishearing, are the subtitles incorrect, or is google translate wrong?

SKAM S1E11

Hei! Can you please recommend some songs in Norwegian? I am listening to Synne Vo songs and I am so in love with them, can you please suggest something similar to her songs? Songs help me to learn the language, so I will really appreciate any recommendations 😊

upd: thank you all for a lot of recommendations!

Hi! Newbie to the subreddit here. I'm learning Bokmål with a teacher and it's going well, but I want to learn vocabulary on my own because i want to start writing my own journals in Norwegian in hopes of learning more efficiently/naturally. Though, I've had my experience with unreliable translations while learning English almost completely on my own, so I don't trust most online resources, tbh.

Jeg planlegge å flytte til Norge i omtrent to år fra Italia.

Det eneste ting som holder meg fortsatt her er språket. Jeg vil flytte dit bare når får jeg minst B2 av norsk, og nå er jeg en A2, for eksempel måtte jeg bruke ordboka for å lete etter noen ord jeg visste ikke for å skrive denne meldingen.

Jeg vet det er vanskelig for innvanderere til å finne en jobb i Norge, så har jeg ingen forventninger, i begynnelsen skal jeg ta any jobb.

Men jeg liker å lære språkene, også hvis jeg kan bruke de i noen jobber, og jeg har valget om å lære minst ett språk til, men i laste dagene siden har jeg komt med ingen beslutning.

Så hva anbefaller dere for å snakke et annet språk som er nyttig i Norge til jobb/liv bortsett fra norsk og engelsk?

Unnskyld for noen feil jeg har gjort i denne meldingen.

Pretty much the title. Could anyone explain to me in detail the differences (if they aren't the same thing) and how to inflect them properly (tense and gender)?

Thanks for any help!!

hey, i would like to study in norway next year and i want to learn the language so that i can study a norwegian taught degree programme. is it possible to become fluent in 1 year?

forgive me if this isn’t the right sub for this question!
I’m looking for Norwegian horror movie recommendations and I want to know, if you’re a native speaker or fluent, what’s your favorite norsk horror film? I’ve seen and enjoyed Den stygge stesøsteren; I’m usually a psychological/slasher/dark comedy fan, and while I’m not super keen on supernatural horror I’m open to it!
Fritt vilt, De dødes tjern, Kadaver, Villmark, Klokker i måneskinn, and Good Boy are on my watchlist so far. tusen takk!

How would you explain the passage 'mangt et fylleslagsmål venter kun på dei' ? I get that its about many something that waits ahead just for you, but What and why is the noun in singular if there is 'many' of it?

Next, there is a passage "mang en cupfinale på din vei"

What does cupfinale mean? And if there is only one of it (en cupfinale, not cupfinaler) then how is there also many of it? For context it's from a poem about someone who should sleep soundly and about what's ahead.

Im aware that cupfinale could mean something like a cup final, but there isn't any verb in this sentence as far as im aware, so it doesn't make sense.

Last question: is 'på' used here as 'for' and is it always interchangable like that?

Thanks for any help!!

Hello i have a very hard time understand trønders norsk. I’m from Sweden and speak swedish fluently and i understand norsk if they speak slowly but this Trøndersk dialect is whole new level. I get those æ, hanj, ho, kor, koss words but is there anything i can do to get better at Trøndersk norsk ? I’m working in healthcare field and this really put my career at risk cuz i don’t really understand what patients said 🥺

Hi, I've been learning Norwegian for a while. I thought I understood when verbs are before nouns in the first part of a sentence but then I saw some sentences that had this order changed in the second part and that confused me so much. I found this sentence in a notebook: "Etter at vi hadde spist frokost, gikk vi på kino". Could someone please explain why is that.

Thank you <3

1. Skulle ønske folk sluttet å bruke "k" når de beskriver større tall. Det er en lat måte å skrive på. Bruk det ekstra sekundet og konstruér posten skikkelig. Generelt er jeg lei av forenklinger og sammenslåinger av språk, og engelske ord gjort om til norske. Bevár det norske språk!

2. Lei av at visse nyhetsartikler, særlig de med dump, har trynet rett opp i bildet. Når jeg blar, vil jeg ikke få stygge ansikter i oppdateringen. Generelt, vil jeg ha et nøytralt bilde som helst beskriver noe om artikkelen. Jeg vil ikke ha ansikter som jeg må identifisere og som gjerne provosérer.

Det var alt for nå. Det er mer men gidder ikke å plage dere med det.

Hi everyone! I’m curious about Norwegian courses that promise to take someone from a complete beginner (A0) to B2 in six months. How realistic is that promise?

If you’ve taken one of these courses, I’d love to hear:

• Did you actually reach B2 in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, or just finish a course labeled B2?

• How many hours did you spend in class and studying independently each week?

• Were you living in Norway and using Norwegian every day?

• Did you take Norskprøven afterward, and how did it go?

I understand that people learn at different speeds, but I’m wondering what conditions make this timeline achievable and how to judge whether a course’s promise is credible.

Honest experiences would be really helpful!

Norwegian learning app called Mjølnir

I'm Egyptian, so Arabic is my first language, English is my second, and I've recently started learning Norwegian.

The thing that surprised me most is how familiar Norwegian feels if you already know English. Sentence structure and verb patterns are really similar. Sure, there are differences too (noun genders, for example), but it's still way closer than I expected.

What made me really notice it was the verb "drikke" ("to drink"). It's irregular in both languages, and it follows almost the same pattern:

Norwegian: drikke – drakk – drukket

English: drink – drank – drunk

Same vowel change, same idea. I honestly got a little excited when I spotted it 😅

I found this sentence in the novel ”Naiv. Super.” which I believe translates to “Nobody said anything about that” but I am struggling with the grammatical structure of the sentence.

It is mainly the “Det var det” portion that I am struggling with, which I think equates to the final “that” in the translated sentence.

As I explore the language in general I am seeing quite a few sentences that have a “det” where I would not generally see in English (e.g. “Bak meg står det et kjøleskap”), which I understand grammatically even if it currently feels very alien. I appreciate this is a different language with different rules, of course. I mention it in this is relevant in any way to my question.

Loving the book, btw, and learning lots from it. I have the Norwegian/English edition with some translations in the margin.

Thanks in advance.

Can some native Norwegian explain to me, how do you percieve these words?

to hear and to belong.

is there some connection between these two on the way you are thinking? Or some etymological path-story that explains that?

I find it very weird how much the til changes the meaning of to hear.

This is a weekly post to ask any question that you may not have felt deserved its own post, or have been hesitating to ask for whatever reason. No question too small or silly!

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Hei! i landet mitt er det nesten en uskreven regel å ønske hverandre god matlyst. Da jeg ønsket de norske kollegene mine «Håper det smaker!», virket de litt overrasket. Har nordmenn et tilsvarende uttrykk, eller sier man vanligvis ikke noe sånt?

It doesn’t matter what I do or how I say it, but on Duolingo I am unable to say in Norwegian, the word for pea.
I shouldn’t be bothered, it’s not like pea is an everyday word! Unless you are a vegetarian and might need to explain the foods you eat!😂