Sunday lessons

When learning Norwegian, one will come across verbs that can sometimes be difficult for new learners to understand how and when they are used. Often in these cases, the verbs might translate into the same English word, but cannot be used interchangeably in Norwegian. Let’s look at some examples.

This lesson goes over the various ways to express “to lose” and “to miss.”

In English, often we use “lay” and “lie” interchangeably, even if they are not meant to be used in that manner, and yet most people never even notice when we use them incorrectly. In Norwegian, however, people will notice when you use “å ligge” instead of “å legge” (or vice versa) or “å sitte” instead of “å sette.” For learners, the difference can be difficult to remember, so we will go over them today.

This lesson goes over how to use “noe” and “noen.”

The previous lesson went over basic sentence structure. This lesson goes over more complex sentences in Norwegian.

This lesson will go over basic sentence structure.

Some verbs in Norwegian have more than one word that can be used, but when to use which word can be difficult. Three examples are “to think,” “to know,” and “to see.”

This lesson goes over some verbs that Norwegian learners struggle with, specifically, “å ha,” “å få,” “å være,” and “å bli.”

This lesson goes over some of the common prepositions used in Norwegian.