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In this episode we're starting a new little series about small bits of helpful and useful expressions, that are common in everyday speech.

And a very helpful way of not repeating the whole phrase in a reponse to a question, we often say f.ex. "Yes, I can" or "Yes, I do".

Ex:

Kan du sykle? Ja, det kan jeg.

Vil du spise? Ja, det vil jeg.

Sykler du til jobben? Ja det gjør jeg.

The rule is this: kan, vil, skal, må + er/har in the question => repeat the verb in the response. All others verbs as question => put "gjør" in the response.

Fill-ins:

Er du glad i dag? Ja, det ... jeg.

Kan du spille gitar? Ja, det ... jeg.

Drikker du kaffe? Ja, det ... jeg.

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In this episode we'll read further about the starving writer/artist in old Kristiania in the late 18 hundreds - and his venturing out into the streets.

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In the episode we'll go through the difference bewteen "da"/"når", both meaning "when", and then helping verbs in the past tense!

In short for "when": "Da" is for "Once in the past" "Når" for everything else

Ex: Da jeg var fire år. Når man studerer. 

Hjelpeverb:

kan - kunne

vil - ville

må - måtte

skal - skulle

bør - burde

Examples:

Hun kunne ikke komme fordi hun var syk.

De skulle gå hjem før det ble mørkt.

Ole burde spille mer musikk.

Fill-ins:

Da jeg var liten, ……... jeg ikke snakke italiensk. (kan)

De ……... pakke kofferten kvelden før. (må)

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In this episode we'll go through some very common (and consistent) expressions with time prepositions, and these are mostly just for remembering them :)

Ex:

Han er hos legen.

Vi trener om kvelden.

Vi skal sove ute i natt.

Han spiller gitar på onsdag.

Om høsten er det fine farger.

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In this episode we'll look at the two main ways of saying "I think" in Norwegian, with:

synes = opinion (something you have experienced)

tror = guessing/believing

Examples:

Jeg synes filmen var bra.

Jeg tror kaken er god.

Fill-ins:

Jeg har lest boka, og jeg ……... den var bra.

Jeg ……... vi har ferie i juli, men jeg er ikke sikker.

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In this episode we'll look at the comparative and superlative form of the adjective, which in general is to add "-ere" and "-est".

Ex: fin, finere, finest varm, varmere, varmest

Fill-ins: Han er ………. i klassen. (høy) Jobben er ………. enn han trodde. (vanskelig)

Some exceptions: stor, større, størst god, bedre, best ung, yngre, yngst

Fill-ins: Han er ……… enn henne. (ung) Han vil bli ……… etter sommeren. (god)

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And in addtion, when the superlative (best, størst, finest, eldst) is used as adjective with a specific noun, we add an "-e" at the end; Det største huset. Den eldste byen.

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