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Hey I’m looking for some Norwegian YouTubers who only really speak in Norwegian. I’d preferably like gaming channels and some girls that do hauls and skincare and lifestyle things

What’s the difference between “i sin bok” and “i boka hans”? Both translate as “in his book”.

What are the Norwegian words for Sir and Ma'am

Have any native speakers tried using ChatGPT in conversation mode in Norwegian? I've been playing with this feature which allows you to speak and it responds back to you in spoken language. If I say "Kan du snakke på norsk?", it switches to Norwegian but the accent seems all over the place. I've had a few conversations with it and i seems like it could be a good virtual language partner but I'm not sure I trust how well it actually speaks.

I was watching a video posted in r/norge about how you can get arrested in Troms if you pick up flowers/things that grow in the wild, and there was a word I didn't recognise, "nemlig"; I searched it but it didn't completely clear things out, I think because of the context. The sentence(s) were: "I Troms har nemlig politiet såpass overskudd av ressurser at de hadde tid og anledning til...". Would it translate as "In Troms, the police in fact/actually has so much/such a surplus of resources that they had the time and opportunity to..."? What would be a more accurate translation? How to correctly use it? I tried Google Translate but it directly erases the word from the sentence when translated to English.

På Norske Akademisk Ordbok definere de det som mer negativt. Men hva tenker dere når dere bruker denne ord?

Mange ganger hører jeg folk si at de synes det er uheldig at ulike språk har hatt innflytelse på norsk. Senest hørte jeg noen som sa at det var trist at tysk har mindre påvirkning på det norske språket enn engelsk på grunn av krigen. En annen gjenganger er at det er synd at norsk har blitt påvirket av dansk. I motsatt ende så er det en del som sier at norsk er et språk med lite ordforråd sammenlignet med fransk og engelsk. Bryr du deg om ord kommer fra norrønt, engelsk, dansk, fransk, svensk, latin, gresk og så videre? Er det bedre å bli påvirket av enkelte språk enn andre eller går det for det samme?

There's a wall panel that one of my great-grandparents owned (he came from Ålesund in the 1930s) that has the words to grace, but it says "I Jesu nam" instead of "navn."

Did it used to be spelled as "nam" in some dialects? I see it's spelled "namn" in Swedish, but what would that be doing in western Norway?

Hallo,

As per the title, I’m looking for recommendations for the best online course to get my Norwegian to a semi-fluent level, that is delivered in a thorough and easy-to-understand way.

I have books on grammar and The Mystery of Nils. I also use Duolingo, but find that it’s not getting me very far.

Takk

I’m currently living in Bergen and I hear a lot of people saying something that sounds phonetically like “arigot” as what I think is a goodbye? Not sure if it’s “ha det godt” and I’m just imaging an “r” sound in there?

Kan noen anbefale noe podkaster eller youtube kanaler som handler om Dungeons and Dragons? Takk på forhånd!

Hi, I am learning norwegian by reading some children books and there is one sentence that I can't figure out, especially what "været" means in this context. It goes:

"Uten å vente på dem, satte han halen i været og gikk mot et blomsterbed."

"Han" refers to a dog if it helps.

When/why does the possessive "min" or english switch to before the word its possessing? I.e Faren min vs min gjest

I hate it when the translation isn’t the correct answer

Im not sure how you properly call that,but im pretty new to Norsk and im looking for new ways to learn the Language,if anybody knows a good way to learn please comment!

What is the difference between those two? There should be a slightly different meaning which I am not quite catching right now. Both means for me pretty much like ignorere, neglisjere, ta ikke hensyn\oppmerksomhet til. But at the same time I found both words in one sentence like ....når noen blir tilsidesatt, oversett eller latterliggjort.

Hello everyone, I hope you are well, I need help translating this part, I can't understand what she said, she says "du sa jo at du skulle vente til neste fullmåne" or "Men jenta mi da du sa jo at du skulle vente til neste for måned"? would it be "fullmåne" or "for måned"? Thank you in advance for your attention :D.

https://reddit.com/link/1gg3vjc/video/asypta6920yd1/player

Jeg er en utvikler fra Nederland som gjerne vil flytte til Norge når jeg er ferdig med utdanningen min. Vil gjerne kunne bevise at jeg kan norsk, og tenkte det var fint med litt 'bevis' - i hvilken som helst form. Men jeg har ikke muligheten til å gå til Norge for å ta et lokalt kurs en plass. Har søkt litt på nettet selv, men fant bare kurs som finner sted i Norge. Noen som har litt peiling på hvor jeg kan ta et online kurs et sted? Takk på forhånd!

Hvordan starte en e-post til folk fra universitetet? Kjære herr/fru/fru, er dette et godt alternativ?

Jeg vet ikke hva jeg må gjøre om det. Jeg bor i Møre og Romsdal og jeg føler meg FORTSATT ikke komfortabel med å snakke med mennesker her. De prater så fort og så forskjellig i forhold til hva jeg har lært på norskkurset så jeg tyr til å snakke engelsk. Jeg har bodd her i 3 år og begynte å lære norsk for 1 år siden. Det føles så flaut at jeg fremdeles ender opp å snakke engelsk mesteparten av tiden og familien til mannen min er jo irritert over det. Jeg trenger tips! I tillegg sliter jeg med lytteøvelser på kurset og synes jeg at det er pga dialektene. Målet mitt er å bestå B2 nivået neste år men føles som jeg skal stryke.

Been listening to this for few years on and off. Only just realized that «trap» is supposed to translate to “trap” (like gangs / drug house). For reference, only started learning the language in mid 2020 little bit at a time. I just think it’s funny that I never realized. Also haven’t looked up the lyrics (for context)

Hi, I'm A2 and I'm really struggling with when to use hvis or om. I read that you can always use om, but not always hvis. I also read, though, that natives still use hvis a lot. I know what the difference is and the whole "if you can use whether, use om" thing but actual execution of the rules is my struggle. So I was wondering, if I only used om, other than even more obviously being nonative, would I just sound weird/incorrect?

I’m trying to learn Norwegian and I’m fairly new, I was trying to say “Today is Tuesday” by saying “i dag et tirsdager” and it said it was wrong and corrected to “i dag er det tirsdag”. Can someone explain why?

"Norge bør ta imot flere innvandrere!Norge bør ta imot flere innvandrere! -title

Det kan å ta inn flyktninger være en måte å øke mangfoldet og berike kulturen i samfunnet. Det kan også bidra til å redusere diskriminering og fremmedfrykt, ved at folk får mulighet til å møte og samhandle med mennesker fra forskjellige kulturer og bakgrunner."

Above is one of the examples of such case and not the only one.

So I feel that there is relatively high chance that on norskpøve will appear question related to this and I really do not want to messed up, just because I will begin to talk about manglende personell i helsesektoren, visas, arbeidskraft, mangfold osv - like in the case with immigrants, and not about refugee related stuff.

For me, innvandrer means immigrant, and flyktninger refugees. But I had a chance to come across a lot of cases where innvandrer=flyktinger. I am just really confused what is going on.

If threre is a question like "bør norge ta imot flere innvandrere?" Are they asking me about refugees without using the exact word "flykninger", or do they want to ask about whether regulations regarding skilled immigrants should be stricter because...