Learn Norwegian Grammar: V2 Rule & Word Order

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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Learn Norwegian Naturally is suitable for anyone who wants to learn or who is learning Norwegian. Some of the episodes are all in Norwegian with Norwegian/English subtitles, while I might explain concepts in English in other ones. If you have any questions regarding Norway, the language, the culture or anything else, don't hesitate to ask.

Good luck with learning Norwegian! Work regularly and steadily, and suddenly you will know how to speak Norwegian fluently.

Best of luck,
Peder

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[LearnNorwegianNaturally]

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.

[Ludauss]

For an English speaker the V2 rule makes it sound like a question

[DPerQ]

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!

[legaleagle]

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.

[ihsahnakerfeldt]

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

[JGBLaRochelle]

Very insightful and interesting lesson thanks

[sanitapliska]

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?

[Whyskyts]

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 :)

[tetianabasista.languages]

The video is actually very helful. Thank you. And your eyes..., the green shirt really enhances the color of your eyes.

[joypenrod]

your english accent is great! where did you learn english?

[patriciaitalia]

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.

[Kennymaosan]

Very useful video. Hope that you could talk about more on grammar and sentence structure in the future.

Tusen takk :)

[cosmicxarcane]

Your eyes is so beautiful... it's so blue that looks like the ocean, when I look at it, it makes me feel want to swim xD
I love your videos <3

[cjpaisano]

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! :)

[riccardobravi]

Where do you find those beautiful nature videos at the end? It's so relaxing!

[andyharpist]

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.

[aravinds]

God dag, min venn. Det er hyggeligt. Taler du dansk?

[WJEOutdoors]

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.

[americanenglishacademyaea]

What if the sentence has two verbs?  Do both follow this rule.  For example: "If I find something I like, I will buy it."

[mrwizzardknight]

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