Talk:Norwegian/Lesson 1

Good day
I observe that "god dag" has been translated with "good day". If I'm not mistaken, "good day" is something you say at the end of an conversation in English (as in "bye"). In Norwegian you say "god dag" as a greeting (as in "hi" or "hello"). There's a story about a norwegian minister who started his speech in English with the words "good day". In Norwegian that makes perfectly sense, but not in English. 129.177.166.2 13:20, 17 May 2006 (UTC) (Mendalus @ en.wikipedia)


 * Well, that's correct. In Norwegian you can use "God kveld" ("Good evening")to end a conversation, but the most common is "Ha det bra" (Literaly: "Have it good") or just "ha det" (an abbreviation of "Ha det bra". Has no meaning, literaly: "Have it") "hei" (also used in the beginning of a conversation, can be translated with "hi" or "bye").--Anjar (talk) 19:54, 15 April 2010 (UTC)


 * In my dictionary "God dag!" means "Good day!", and "Good morning!" would be "God morgen!" in norvegian. In the main article "God dag!" is translated as "Good morning!", and now I'm confused which means what.

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Since the contributor didn't leave a note or mention his/her intention in the edit summary, I thought I'd mention that that this whole page seems to have been pretty much replaced in April 2009. --Swift (talk) 04:53, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Gender of øl
I am not awfully sure if beer in Norwegian is a neuter noun, "En øl" sounds more right than "Et øl". 95.34.175.206 (talk) 17:29, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it's the same as in danish where the liquid is neuter, but a bottle of the drink is masculine. --Swift (talk) 22:43, 7 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Nope, øl is both. If you look in the dictionary, you will find three meanings of the word. Two of them, one means weak low heat, the second means a bottle/cup of beer (øl), both is masculine. The last means only bear, and that is neuter.
 * The first meaning is very, very rare, the second is the most common, and the third not so much used (it's used in sentences like "Dette ølet var godt" ("This beer was good")) --Anjar (talk) 19:37, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Maybe link some audio for the dialogs?
People who are new to a language really need people to model new words and phrases for them. If they learn it only through text, they risk developing an awkward heavy accent. Just a suggestion. Thanks for putting your time into this project!