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Norsk grammatikk – fra A1 til B2
A clear grammar book with explanations in your language, tables, exercises with answers and audio links.
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Contents
- Pronunciation
- Nouns: gender and articles
- Verbs in the present tense
- Personal pronouns
- Possessives: min, din, sin
- Question words
- The infinitive: å + verb
- The imperative: Kom! Spis!
- Numbers, time and dates
- Plural of nouns
- The alphabet and spelling
- Negation: ikke, ingen, aldri
- Yes/no questions and short answers
- Object pronouns: meg, deg, ham, henne
- Noun gender: en, ei, et
- Stress, tones and long vs short vowels
- Adjectives: agreement
- Past tense (preteritum)
- Word order: the verb in second place
- Modal verbs
- Present perfect: har + participle
- Prepositions of time and place
- The four weak verb groups
- Strong and irregular verbs
- Demonstratives
- Adverbs
- Conjunctions and subordinators
- Compound words
- Irregular adjectives
- Genitive and ownership: Pers bil, bilen til Per
- Indefinite pronouns: noen, ingen, alle, hver
- S-verbs: synes, trives, finnes, møtes
- Confusing verb pairs: ligge/legge, sitte/sette, vite/kjenne
- Spelling: double consonants and capital letters
- Time expressions: i går, om en uke, for ... siden
- Subordinate clauses: ikke before the verb
- Comparison of adjectives
- Future: skal, kommer til å, present
- The past perfect: hadde + participle
- The conditional: ville, skulle and hvis
- Det as a formal subject
- Indirect speech
- Ongoing actions: holder på å, sitter og leser
- Infinitive phrases: for å, uten å, ved å
- Paired conjunctions: både – og, verken – eller, enten – eller
- Commas and punctuation
- Word formation: prefixes and suffixes
- Bli and få – two small verbs with many jobs
- Where does ikke go? Sentence adverbs
- Reflexive verbs
- Passive: bli passive and s passive
- Relative clauses with som
- Particle verbs: gi opp, finne ut
- Participles: smilende, stengt, lukket
- Formal writing
- Emphasis and little words: det … som, jo, vel, nok
- Fixed prepositions: glad i, redd for, på Lillehammer
- Nynorsk basics: how to read it
- Advanced word order
- The passive: nuances and style
- Conditionals with inversion
- Nominal style and plain language
- Modal particles: jo, vel, nok, da …
- Present participles and participle phrases
- Cohesion and reference in texts
- The subjunctive and old fixed expressions
- Common idioms
- Collocations: words that belong together
- Synonyms and shades of meaning
- Register and style
- Advanced word formation
- False friends
- Advanced phrasal verbs
- Advanced fixed prepositions
- The argumentative essay (drøftende tekst)
- Complex sentences
- Language for meetings and negotiations
- News language
- Spoken reductions: how Norwegians really talk
- Irony and understatement
- The Bergen test (Bergenstesten)
- Academic Norwegian
- Exercises with answers