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Hei, og velkommen til ukens grammatikk-video
om ubestemt form av adjektivet.

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Welcome to this weeks presentation about the
inflection of the adjective in norwegian.

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Enjoy the presentation!

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Adjective inflection.

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In Norwegian adjectives are inflected in number
and gender

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It means that an adjective takes on different
forms in singular and plural, and in masculine,

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femine and neuter.

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Knowing the gender of a Norwegian noun helps
you choose the correct inflection of the adjective

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describing that noun.

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In attributive form the adjectives are placed
in front of the noun to which they refer.

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The masculine form of the adjective is the
form that you find in a dictionary.

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The form is then modified according to the
number and gender of the noun the adjective

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describes.

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The feminine presents the same form of the
masculine, but neuter adjectives mark the

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gender with a T at the end.

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That’s why you have
En brun stol, ei brun seng BUT et brunt bord.

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The neuter gender of the noun «bord» is
also marked on the adjective «brunt».

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In the plural, on the other hand, the ending
is the same regardless of the gender of the

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noun.

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So we have brune stoler, brune senger and
brune bord.

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In Predicative form, the adjectives are connected
to the noun with the verb er, present tense

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of to be, «å være» and are positioned
after the verb.

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BUT the same rules for number and gender apply
here as well.

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Then we have
Stolen er brun, Senga er brun, Bordet er brunt

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and Stolene/sengene/bordene er brune.

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Notice that with predicatives the nouns they
describe are often used in definite form:

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stolen/the chair, senga/ the bed, bordet/
the table and in plural stolene/sengene/bordene=

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the chairs, the beds, the tables

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Now, let’s talk about colours.

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Colour adjectives behaves generally as other
adjectives.

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That means that they are inflected in number
and gender as in brun, brunt, brune; gul,

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gult, gule, rød, rødt, røde and hvit, hvitt,
hvite.

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Pay attention to the pronunciation of the
neutral form of the colour.

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Because of the ending in T, the vowels get
short, so while you pronounce brun with a

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long U, you have to say brunt with a short
U.

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The same apply to gult, rødt and hvitt.

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There are then some colours which present
a hybrid type of inflection, that means that

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they follow the general rules with some modifications:
Blå and Grå follow the rule for the neutral

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with blått and grått, but in the plural
may or may not take the ending in E.

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So you can have blå and blåe, grå and gråe.

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Both forms are accepted in modern Norwegian.

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Green /Grønn loses one N in the neutral form,
this happens mostly to avoid not traditional

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combination with 3 consonants.

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For similar reasons, that is avoiding unusual
consonants combination, Svart/Black doesn’t

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add any more T in the neutral form, because
a T is already included in the name of the

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colour itself

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Finally, we have some colours which never
change their form.

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Lilla, oransje and rosa remain the same regardless
of number and gender.

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Let’s practise a little bit
In the next two slides you’ll see some objects.

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I want to ask you to name the objects and
tell which colour they have.

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In Norwegian of course!

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Try to make simple sentences like:
Det er et blått bord – There is a blue

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table
Hvilken farge har bordet?

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Bordet er blått.

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– The table is blue

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Hva er det? Hvilken farge har det?

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Det er et brunt, et hvit og et oransje skap
Det er en hvit, en rød og en lilla kaffekopp

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Det er en blå flaske
Det er to gule nøkler og en grønn nøkkel

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Fasit - Answers
Det er to brune flasker – Flaskene er brune

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Det er to grønne bord – Bordene er grønne
Det er to røde lenestoler – Lenestolene

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er røde
Det er en svart kontorstol – Kontorstolen

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er svart
Det er en grønn og oransje stol – Stolen

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er grønn og oransje
Det er et blått bord – Bordet er blått

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Det er en grønn seng med blå madrasser – Sengen
er

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grønn, og madrassene er blå
Det er en rød picknick-benk – Benken er rød.

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I hope you enjoyed playing with colors,

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if you want to learn more about adjectives you find extra grammar resources in the download section.

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