Norwegian Language - 50 handy, easy words

I was looking at photos of Norway and saw signs on buildings. I wanted to translate them. I saw the word bread. It was brød . I thought, let's put some other everyday words into translate Google and see what we get.

You will be delighted how similar Norwegian is to English and how quickly you can recognize words, especially if you know what to expect.

First ten words

Second ten words

Third Ten words

Fourth ten words

Fifth ten words

De første ti ordene
Andre ti ord
Tredje Ti ord
Fjerde ti ord
Femte ti ord

The letters ORD are in word and ord.

Isn't Norwegian similar to English? Isn't it easy!

First ten words:

English

bread and fire

north

south

east

west

bridge

church

sea

harbour

ship

Norwegian

brød og ild Nord sør øst vest

bro kirke hav havn skip

That is ten.

Second ten words:

English

car bus coach train station mother father son daughter child

Norwegian

bil
buss
trener
tog
stasjon

mor
far
sønn
datter
barn (like Scottish bairn)

That is twenty.

Third ten words:

English

money
cash
cheque
credit card
hotel

bed
bedroom
night
day
breakfast

Norwegian

penger
penger
kryss av
kredittkort
hotell

seng
soverom
natt
dag
frokost (German is frühstück which means early bite)

That is thirty words.

Fourth Ten Words:
English

lunch
dinner
tea
coffee
cake

meat
how much
receipt
I
want

Norwegian
lunsj
middag
te
kaffe
kake

kjøtt
hvor mye
kvittering
Jeg
ønsker
That is forty words!

Fifth Ten Words:
English
I want to pay
how much
expensive
cheap
cheaper

smaller
larger
small
large
what size?

Norwegian
Jeg ønsker å betale
hvor mye
dyrt
billig
billigere

mindre
større
liten
stor
hvilken størrelse?
That is fifty words.

More words
ten more

what time
which day
which month
which year
today

mindre
større
liten
stor
hvilken størrelse

når
hvilken dag
hvilken måned
hvilket år
i dag
Useful Website explains what is bokmal (literally book) na has a handy chart showing English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Afrikaans and Icelandic. It looks to me like you can learn any one of these in addition to English and you are half way to reading and understanding any of the others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language

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Angela Lansbury
travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher and tutor and workshop leader on learning and improving English and other languages.