Learn Norwegian Grammar: V2 Rule & Word Order
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- Learn Norwegian grammar by learning about the V2 rule and what word order you need to use for the verb when you construct a sentence.
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For an English speaker the V2 rule makes it sound like a question
German also has the V2 rule and the syntax for a question is completely different:
Gestern hatte ich einen guten Tag. (I had a good day yesterday)
Hatte ich gestern einen guten Tag? (Did I have a good day yesterday?)
I assume it's similar for Norwegian. (Though, I'm just wasting some time watching TH-cam videos about Norwegian. I'm not earnestly studying it.)
Does the sentence "rarely do I ever encounter people who do this and that" also sound like a question? No it doesn't because it doesn't begin with a question word and its structure is different. Same thing here.
@@ghenulo Yes it does. Interestingly, Norwegian syntax seems to be a mixture of German and English. Norwegian has the V2 rule but other than that the verb order is just like in English and none of the weird German verb order. For someone used to German, it can be challenging and you'd have to resist the urge to put the non-conjugated verbs at the end when speaking Norwegian.
I am busy with midterm exams, but I just wanted to make a short video about the V2 rule. Maybe I'll make a more in-depth video in the future. I hope you like it! :) Subtitles can be turned on for the Norwegian sentences.
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Godness gracious, your eyes look so Norwegian in this video, it's even more Norwegian than usual!
Also, thank you for another portion of priceless information. Tusen takk!
Haha, thank you! I am glad you liked the episode!
You could find eyes like his all over Europa, especially in Slavic nations :)
I like these new shorter videos. They are very helpful.
People might like to know that this rule also applies in all the other Germanic languages except for English, so V-2 word order is very common in Swedish, Danish, Dutch, and German as well as in Norwegian. It also used to be common in English until a few hundred years ago, when 18th Century grammarians decided that English, despite being a Germanic language, should be more like Latin, and Latin doesn't use V-2 word order as the Germanic languages do.
That's really interesting, Lee! Thanks for sharing.
Actually, i don't think grammarians modelled modern English on Latin. That's more of the high academic vocabulary taken from French/Latin/Greek. The core grammar, on the other hand, had already been reduced before the Normans came. For example, gone were grammatical genders, as well as adjective and noun declension.
English has very, VERY few vestiges of V2 left. Such as "As am i", "Neither are you", "Never have i ever........"
Damn that Renaissance, trying to make English more like Latin!
When I grow up, I want to be a grammarian.
your english accent is great! where did you learn english?
Why am I'm watching? I'm Norwegian lol
This is the one rule that I'm sure, messes up English speakers. We take it as questions because of the word order. This is the one part of grammar that is challenging, for me, at least. I keep at it though. ;) How would you ask a question with a dependent clause? For example, Tomorrow afternoon, will we go to Oslo? Tussen takk! :)
Yes, I definitely understand that it can be a challenge. Keep up the good work! :) You would use the rule in the same way as if it wasn't a question: "I morgen ettermiddag, skal vi dra til Oslo?" However, I would not say that that's a good sentence (it doesn't feel very natural). In that case I think it's better to say: "Skal vi dra til Oslo i morgen ettermiddag?`"
christophe p But why would you perceive it as a question when the sentence doesn't begin with a verb? Context and intonation should also make it clear.
I don't know really any Norwegian, but in German, which I have studied and also has the V2 rule, there's a definite difference between:
Gestern hatte ich einen guten Tag. (I had a good day yesterday)
Hatte ich gestern einen guten Tag? (Did I have a good day yesterday?)
I like your videos a lot, they are really helpful, much more than Duolingo haha. I hope your exams went well and thank you very much for your videos!! (and GOD your eyes in this video look sick) tusen takk :)
Hei hei!
Maybe you would like to devote more videos to "word order" topic. For instance - in cases when you use "ikke" and about location and time place in the sentence?
Same rule in German :]
The number of similarities of Norwegian with English and German is crazy. Sometimes it's like hearing a German or English sentence with a different pronunciation xD
Thanks for the vid man
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Stop cutting video after every second wrods! irritating.
Very insightful and interesting lesson thanks
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What if the sentence has two verbs? Do both follow this rule. For example: "If I find something I like, I will buy it."
American English Academy AEA _if I find something I like_ is a dependent clause thus the rule doesn't apply. The rule applies to _I will buy it_ (the independent clause) which should correspond to _will I buy it_ in Norwegian. The entire preceding subordinate clause assumes position 1.
Ihsahn Åkerfeldt That answered all of my problems omg
Just be glad Norwegian doesn't have a completely different word order for dependent clauses like German does, so that the German word order is: "If I something find which I like will I it buy." (Wenn ich etwas finden, das ich mag, werde ich es kaufen.)
God dag, min venn. Det er hyggeligt. Taler du dansk?
Yep! ;) Norwegian ever so slightly has some very feint similarities with Dutch! XD And no! I’m not Dutch! I’m English! XD Mind you, some of the vowel sounds we North Eastern English have are pretty damn similar to some Norwegian vowel sounds! XD The way we say; “tray” “boat”! XD What happens is we don’t open our vocal chords as wide as they would in the South of England! XD
Those eyes... I am shocked
It's like in Dutch!
Hi I am confused where to put du/dere in a scentence. Sometimes it’s correct to put it first but sometimes the verb has to go first? I’m confused, maybe you can help.
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I have been struggling with this for a while, but your explanation is starting to make me finally understand. Charts only confuse me, but when you say that an adverb or an adverbial phrase at the beginning of the sentence makes it necessary to put the verb before the subject, a light is slowly coming on for me. I tend to do the exact opposite of what is required, but I'm going back to my exercises now to see if it's sinking in. Thanks for your videos.
V2 ...But not after Conjunctions...'and I love her' ( og jeg elsker henne). I think it comes with time and feels natural after a while.
The video is actually very helful. Thank you. And your eyes..., the green shirt really enhances the color of your eyes.
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Very useful video. Hope that you could talk about more on grammar and sentence structure in the future.
Tusen takk :)
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For all English people he is learning you "bokmål" so people understand you but you MAY not understand what people are saying to you (depends where they are from in Norway) for example "ikke" can be changed to "ikkje" and it's said a lot different. Sooooo, be careful
He is teaching* you bokmål. Not learning you. Typisk norsk feil
I've heard Norwegians saying the sentence "Så flink du er", in which case the verb is in the third position (Så flink is the independent clause, "du" comes 2nd and the verb er comes 3rd). So, why is this not wrong?
_så flink du er_ is not an independent clause. _så_ in this case is a subordinating conjunction.
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Tusen takk, Riccardo! Det er veldig hyggelig å høre. :)
I can't write back in Norwegian yet ahahah your videos are a source of inspiration ahah HelloTalk will help me a lot :-)
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When you say "etter at jeg er ferdig med leksene mine", does this follow the v2 rule? Because the "er" is third in this sentence structure, no?
Pablo That's a subordinate (dependent) clause which can't stand on its own since it's introduced by a subordinating conjunction like _etter_. The V2 rule applies to independent clauses.
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Does the v2 rule also apply for "kanskje" in Norwegian? Because it would be in Dutch, but some Norwegian I know said I didn't need to turn the verbs around after kanskje.
Hello! I already answered an identical question below. Here's my answer: That's a surprisingly good question. Take the song "Kanskje Kommer Kongen" as an example of where it looks like the V2 rule is being used. However, if you search on Google for different sentences you will most likely get more results when you search for "kanskje + person + verb". Take the beginning "'maybe you are ..." in Norwegian. Both "kanskje er du" and "kanskje du er" sound correct to me and both give several hundred thousands results on Google. I think maybe "kanskje" is an exception where both structures work (at least in very many situations).
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Does this also apply if the beginning word is "kanskje"?
+sacredbanana That's a surprisingly good question. Take the song "Kanskje Kommer Kongen" as an example of where it looks like the V2 rule is being used. However, if you search on Google for different sentences you will most likely get more results when you search for "kanskje + person + verb". Take the beginning "'maybe you are ..." in Norwegian. Both "kanskje er du" and "kanskje du er" sound correct to me and both give several hundred thousands results on Google. I think maybe "kanskje" is an exception where both structures work (at least in very many situations).
Yes, both structures work for "kanskje", both are correct. The reason for why both structures work for this word, is connected to the etymology of "kanskje". It consists of the two words "kan" and "skje" (happen). So "Kanskje kongen kommer" is in a way a short form of "Det kan skje at kongen kommer" (It may happen that the king comes), so here we have the structure of subordinate clauses where the V2-rule does not apply. When you have "kanskje kommer kongen" - "kanskje" is functioning as an adverb and you have a normal V2-clause. :)
how would we know when to add an “e” or “t” at the end of a word? such as «tung», «tunge», or «tungt»
When the noun is masculine or feminine, you do not add anything. When the noun is neutral, you add "t". When the noun is plural, you add "e".
Examples:
Boken er tung.
Bordet er tungt.
Vesker er tunge.
@@hisham2293 An example of an exception to this rule is adjectives ending with -ig which retain their ending when adjectives with different endings would add T.
Et viktig ansvar. (Ansvar is neuter)
En viktig mann. (Mann is not neuter)
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