Norwegian Language: Family-words

[@joannabredlak6341]

Tusen takk!!! I am starting with my norsk lessons and yours videos are perfect!

[@PiotrekPomorski]

Just started to learn Norwegian, actually bought my first book today - and i've found You. So nice. Great lessons by the way :) Thanks a lot!

[@fedhas]

I found this lesson very helpful. I look forward to more. Thank you so much. Am Davis Fedha from Kenya.

[@walkertorrescano2447]

I'm totally offended, how didn't I notice this channel before, thanks 🙏 so much for your help and time to provide us about this beautiful language.

[@multivan2001]

Thanks for this new lessons, Karin. I'm going to spend my holidays in Norway in July this year with my family. Greetings from Kiel Nils

[@quark58]

She is excellent. Hun er utmerket. Lykke til. (Norwegian is my 4th. language followed by Bangla, Italian and English).

[@kusunmengstab4528]

Thank you so much jeg er glad I deg fordi du er en best lærerene.

[@laor100]

It is amazing how the language looks and sounds like English sometimes.

[@aklilutewelde8431]

Thanks Karim for the more important of family words what I was desired to know them.

[@PedroLopez-sx1zw]

Thank you so much for your help- I nor pa Bjolsen i Oslo

[@johngrey9016]

Elsker Norge and all Scandal-navians.. Very helpful vid..Tusen takk...

[@justinfletcher9867]

thank you for you videos, it's quite helpful dealing with learning a new language

[@thefloridamimi9278]

Thank you for this! I just found my birth family, and my fathers mother is still living!! I'm so lucky to have found my Bestemor, and this is what she wants me to call her. And now I can pronounce it correctly!!!

[@ravingidiot]

I think it's pretty cool that Norwegians refer to their significant others as "dearest", espescially since your relationship with that person is unambiguous. Aside from English, the only other language I have studied to any real degree is German. If you say "Sie ist meine Freundin," you could be saying "She is my pal," but you could also be implying that "She is my girlfriend." The Norwegian way of doing this seems a lot simpler!

[@MarianoLeotta]

Jeg er fra Italia og jeg studerer norsk... Tusen takk :)

[@omgitsthebeatles]

I love these videos...before I found them I had pretty much given up on Norwegian.

[@davids.rojasleiva2114]

Great job...i will learn english and norwegian with you...Thanks

[@abuqasimafridi6903]

She's talking so cute.

[@eduardobaiaopimenta]

takk tusen takk. Karin you are great teacher!

[@noviantoekobudiman7633]

Thanks for the video!

[@dalm0312]

@obenv Tusen takk, finally someone competent with a reliable answer ;) Thank you for your comment!

[@aylinThePokemon]

i love this language because it sounds beautiful

[@Seasofdesolation]

You are a good teacher and attractive too :D awesome lesson!

[@THeFoUnGi]

Sviger is similiar in german, we say "Schwieger". great lesson :)

[@haphaeu]

lol... "Those are hard sentences... good luck!" ... indeed, I'll need it :) thanks, nice video

[@joyc9450]

Thank you. This is helpful.

[@maje.883]

I don't know if this is right, but Jeg elsker norske kvinner

[@zachary1077]

it is right

[@maje.883]

+Zach Johnson thanks zach

[@sowhatandisaidhi2235]

same

[@kaylehmon]

@Mslay3r I speak German too - a lot of the nouns and some verbs look the same, but sound so different! Luckily, most German sounds how it looks, so it's so easy to learn.

[@AnaLopes-uh7wx]

Oh god, girl, you're killing me! I don't even know all the family connections in my own mothe language XP

[@01coyote13]

You are very cute, thank you for the lesson

[@Rathouse21]

Why is every single Norwegian girl here on youtube so freaking adorable?

[@Cold0Shadow]

@Spyrulino I know I'm not the person you asked, but I guess in general most Norwegians speak faster than she does in this video. Also remember that there are huge differences in terms of dialect in Norway, and that can affect the way words are pronounced. Most languages in the world pull words together as they speak, often causing it to sound more "liquid" as you put it. :)

[@Nissehultan]

Awesomeness Karin:-)

[@anettetre6631]

Jeg kommer fra Norge :)

[@rubendavilajayo3032]

Continué with this proyecto greetings frontera Perú

[@was2526]

u r very funny, a gud way of teaching.

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Thank you so much! :)

[@aliherring2047]

Is their an affectionate way to say mother? In the USA, we might say mama or mommy?

[@Brintnay]

German has the same thing for in-laws: "Schwieger..." (Schwiegermutter ...) And Tante and Onkel are the same words as well.

[@sebastianc.2098]

thanks from Patagonia

[@faisalibrahim6943]

thank you lady

[@melindaworen2612]

Hi. You good teacher, yours video are helpful. And I have question about that sentence: "This is my sister-in-law with her son, my nephew. Dette er svigersøsteren min, med sønnen hennes, nevøen min. " U can call nephew not only yours sibling's kids and also kids of siters of your husband? Thank you in advance! ;)

[@hass1987m]

thank you teacher

[@Paulocamposak]

Veldig bra!

[@ramkkmusiclover7971]

1 number 🙏 Madam 😜

[@faisalabdulfattah]

Hahahahahaha! I love you a little bit right now.

[@dougcull8644]

because of the norse vikings, the accent is still around to some degree in far northern scotland and the isles!

[@plagueangel761]

So is bestemor etc. like a ... erm, "sexless" version of grandfather and grandmother? Like can you use bestemore interchangeably?

[@haggarnoon7037]

Vedldig bra : D

[@rudigerh.9795]

Can one just say instead of "Dette er bror min." can one say, "Dette er min bror." ????

[@TaiChiKnees]

Barnebarn is my favorite Norwegian word. Takk!

[@NorwegianTeacher]

TaiChiKnees Så bra :D

[@TheManglerPolishDeathMetal]

i love this accent

[@SuperCobertura]

Jeg elsker deg .

[@lailit]

Syns du er kjempeflink. :)

[@kenstarr2009]

Very well! Especially søsken :D "Søsken" is sounding drolly for Russians, because it's like "soska", which means: baby's dummy; vulgar definition of girl. Many (but not all) family-words in English and Norwegian are like native Russian family-words.

[@bobbyanderson2863]

how many times have you visited normay?

[@happypuppyjohn]

this was fast-moving.it's better this way i think. thanks

[@_intrepid]

In polish brother in-law is also similar, it's "szwagier".

[@Romans8-9]

The funny O in sonn and soster are the same vowel but when you said them, they sounded different? Is the O sound meant to be the same?

[@obenv]

@dalm0312 I'm Norwegian, so I thought I'd give my input. In my judgment it's always OK to transform R+S into an SH-sound. So, in particular, it's perfectly fine to pronounce "svigersøster" as "svigeshøster" and "når skal vi spise?" as "nåshkal vi spise?" (These are the examples I've seen being discussed here.) My personal inclination, however, would be to essentially not pronounce the "r" at all in cases like the preceding.

[@TalhaBedir]

what is the thing you carry on your tongue all time ? :S

[@davewilliams4485]

You teach better than a lot of professors I know. By the way, "Mann" for husband comes from German.

[@thirtytwodev255]

tusen takk

[@Adi-ACL]

Hey! just a general question: is it like a general thing for norwegians to speak fast? like extremly liquid? I can't find another term to compare it. The thing is that when I hear some norwgian spoken like you speak english, I can understand it, but when you speak normally norwegian, I don't get any! :)

[@Andrzewo]

because she is beauty...

[@alesbica]

@Kissing12Roses Me too. Much easier than saying "maternal/paternal grandparents".

[@33INVICTA]

Interesante, MORFAR significa en Lunfardo : to eat (Lunfardo: dialecto que se habla en Buenos Aires y Argentina, muy difundido en líricas del tango), ejemplo: "¿vamos a MORFAR algo? = ¿Vamos a comer algo? Do we want to eat something? :-)

[@undesisivej24]

i have a question,is norway language the same thing as nowegian language? im not really sure

[@karupask3]

Well I learned that when you hear the "Gravid" word, you gotta get the hell out of there:D

[@puberis]

Why isn't it, for instance, "onkelen", instead of "en onkel"? I thought the article went after the noun? Or is that only in Swedish?

[@OktoberStorm]

Hun er så pen at det ser ut til at jeg er på gang med å lære meg norsk på nytt =D

[@dawiddavelinthe8126]

Also in polish, we say "Szwagier". :)

[@coreymalhiot2796]

Called my Grandmother and my Grandfather Farmor, and Farfar! Now i know what it means! really simple actually.

[@NorwegianTeacher]

Corey Malhiot haha :D You called them that always and ditn know what it meant? :D funny ^^

[@suseuekthrash]

is it common way of puttng "my" pronoun after described object? t.ex. bror min instead min bror, and if the second one is correct too? takk

[@martinet1985]

Takk skal du ha!

[@adil20510]

Så bra ! jeg skrev alle på not-

[@dalm0312]

@yurismir1 I actually asked a couple of Norwegian friends about the "svigeRSøster" phenomenon and none of them seems to have any logical explanation for it. "We just say it like that." So I'll just go with that. The best advice I got was: "Drop bokmål, learn nynorsk, at least there you pronounce everything properly" English is famous for the lack of consistency in its spelling and pronunciation so I don't really like to take it as an example in this sense.

[@dalm0312]

@yurismir1 I see your point, of course no language is following pronunciation rules without exceptions & I'm not expecting norsk to do so either. I was looking for sy to tell if the "svigeRSøster" thing is a)an exception from the general rule that in R+S S will be transformed b)that rule is not as simple as that & voilà why it is pronounced like this c)there's no "rule" at all, just listen to how people pronounce stuff & repeat that. (I meant the live=[laɪv] or [lɪv] type of inconsistency in E)

[@mdm0009]

Omg, the Norwegian word for engaged sounds just like the Dutch word: forlovet - verloofd

[@Pipsqwak]

No, they're the indefinite or definite articles of gendered nouns. Many nouns have a gender. Generally, "En" is used with masculine nouns, "ei" with feminine nouns and "et" with neutral nouns. However, most feminine nouns can be used as masculine, so "en" and "et" are most common. They're also put at the beginning or end of a noun depending on whether they're definite or indefinite: "a school" = en skole; "the school" = skolen.

[@martinet1985]

I was just wondering... Is it okay If I say ei mor and ei niese? I was taught that there are three genders in norsk. Specifically: feminine, masculine and neuter. Is it ok if I use the masculine for all "female" nouns? Tusen takk!

[@iamvictoriamathers]

Can you please answer me this: why your Norwegian sounds like the Swedish in the Fucking Åmål movie?, and why doesn't it sound like the Norwegian in the Headhunters movie. In Headhunters, it sounds more relaxed. I prefer your Norwegian! btw. I love your Norwegian, because it sounds like more Scandinavian to me, and it's more able to be differentiated. Thanks a lot for your videos!, I subscribed :D. If you can, make some Norwegian-Spanish course videos please and thanks :D ☺☺

[@imhellag]

I am immature, but children is 'barn' LOL that's cute.

[@timppatimo6287]

Wow, in-law is "Sviger"?.. I wonder could this be related to a russian word "Свёкр" ("svyokr", "svökr"), which also means in-law.

[@truegyptawy]

that's weird!! we also in egypt say Tant for aunt?, u know after hearing the norwegian language i can say that it sounds alot like arabic specially in the way u pronounce the r's

[@meashobereketeab3108]

Kjempe fint

[@Neueregel]

takk !!

[@alesbica]

So, how would one know the gender of someone's boyfriend or girlfriend if the word is the same for both? Do they know from the definite ("the")/indefinite article ("a/an") or possessive adjective (e.g., "my/your")?

[@dalm0312]

Hei, I'm wondering how the pronunciation works in "s" turning into "sh" after "r", like in "norsk" , "først", and according to my norwegian coursebook, even in the case when they are in separate words, like "nåR Spiser vi?" But when you say "svigeRSøsteren", you keep the "s" sound after the "r" and don't transform it in "sh"... confusedconfused...:S

[@salahELM]

very good

[@Brintnay]

Ich weiß, ich weiß, meinte das nur, weil sie im Video ja sagt, dass sie nicht weiß wo es her kommt und es im Deutschen halt ähnlich/gleich ist eben wegen der selben Sprachfamilie. ;)

[@stivebrown]

Wife in Rorwegian is Kone and Kone is also a Finnish word for ENGINE or MACHINE woow .

[@ilupir77]

Thanks babe

[@dalm0312]

@amarath84 yepp, I'm over that. Though a dialect should be consistent so if one goes with the s-->sh one there should be some sort of rule. I know they don't do that in the Bergen dialect, but it's common in Oslo's norsk. (I live in Trondheim so I have no Idea why I bother asking about this... maybe cause there's no language course for trøndersk...)

[@bigbenjiman]

I've noticed that alot of words have prefixes such as en and et in front of a lot of the words. Does this just mean 'one' of something and do you always use it when you say those words?

[@belkyhernandez8281]

Ben Swall-Yarrington en, ei, et, indicate the gender of the noun and how conjugate it. (Not sure conjugate is the right word since gendered nouns don't exist in English.) For example, a house=et hus; is gender neutral. The house=huset. This also determines how nouns and adjectives are combined. So in Norwegian you need to know the gender of every word.

[@UploadingFriend]

Bare lurer på - hvorfor valgte du å skrive "en bror" og så videre på nesten alle de norske ordene? Vil ikke det bare være forvirrende for de som ikke kan språket? Altså, hvorfor 'en' og 'et' foran alle de ordene? Ellers synes jeg du gjør en god jobb; mange fine videoer. :)

[@fastandeffective]

Family words in Norwegian from google translate: man Mann husband mann woman kvinne wife kone female widow enke male widow Enkemann engaged forlovet married gift divorced skilt pregnant gravid pregnancy svangerskap mother mor family familie parents foreldre kids/children barn boys gutter the boys guttene girls jenter the girls jentene grandfather farfar/morfar grandmother bestemor/farmor/mormor grandchildren barnebarn son sønn daughter datter brother bror brother in law svigerbror sister søster sister in law svigersøster siblings søsken uncle onkel aunt tante niese niese nephew nevø female cousin en Kusine male cousin en Fetter cousins søskenbarn boyfriend/girlfriend/lover kjæreste

[@vasotsir]

how do we say my grand daughter or gandson?

[@salmanrasik9217]

love to talk

[@simply_flo]

Sviger has its origins in the Middle High German language. There it's swigar. In today's German it's Schwieger due to the High German consonant shift where the /S/ became a /SH/.

[@userto9999]

awesome!

[@dalvaleandro]

muito bom obrigado jeg Brasiliense