Learning Norwegian lesson 5 - Counting | AmeriNorge

Today we are going over numbers.

Vocabulary - Vokabular:
0 - null (nool)
1 - en/ett (en/et)
2 - tre (tray)
4 - fire (feed-eh)
5 - fem (fem)
6 - seks (sex)
7 - sju (shoe)
8 - åtte (oh-teh)
9 - ni (nee)
10 - ti (tee)
11 - elleve (elv-eh)
12 - tolv (tohlv)
13 - tretten (tret-ten)
14 - fjorten (fyor-ten)
15 - femten (fem-ten)
16 - seksten (sighs-ten)
17 - sytten (suh-ten)
18 - atten (ah-ten)
19 - nitten (nee-ten)
20 - tjue (hyoo-eh)
30 - tretti (tret-tee)
40 - førti (fur-tee)
50 - femti (fem-tee)
60 - seksti (sex-tee)
70 - sytti (soo-tee)
80 - åtti (oh-tee)
90 - nitti (nee-tee)
(1) hunderd - (et) hundre (huhn-dreh) -- 300 - tre hundre
(1) thousand - (et) tusen (too-sen) -- 5000 - fem tusen

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[Bearsca]

Ah, of course, the famous Monty Python sketch, "The Norwegians who say ni." :P

[Henoik]

You may or may not know this already, since you posted the video last year, but the "v" in "tolv" is silent.

[SaDreamStudio]

Excuse me!
Can I translate it into Chinese and upload for went to learn Norway Chinese?
Your teaching is so very helpful and easy to understand! Thank you so much!!

[Muchoyo]

Perhaps it is worth mentioning that often times Norwegians use the more or less traditional "backwards" way of counting, like, instead of saying "tjueen, tjueto, tjuetre", they say "enogtjue, toogtjue, treogtjue" and so forth. I believe it is good thing to be aware of, to better understand what is being said, although it is in no way necessary for anyone to count in that manner. It is just something that has survived over the decades. Furthermore, when counting in this way one tends to say toogtredve, treogtredve and so forth (instead of "toogtretti" etc, which would sound kinda weird). Also, when one comes to the forties, similarly, "enogførr", "toogførr", "treogførr" etc. But it is more "acceptable" to say "toogførti" than "toogtretti"

[nightbyt]

To help you a bit. I noticed some numbers werent quite right. (with pronounciation)

You spoke the number 2 as it was in english two. but it has more o sound. and you said it with more u sound.
Same as number 14 more o sound in this too.

Number seventeen and seventy has more ø sound, but sytten and sytti is also accepted. But its more widely known as "søtten" "søtti" so to speak, (when saying førti, you had it right pronounciation with letter ø)

Lastly. the number thousand sounded like you added the letter s. you had the right way of saying it when you said it last time with "tusen takk" (at 4:39) (when you told us to come with feedbacks and pointers :P)

Rest was really nice done :D

And a tip. when saying tretten - nitten (thirteen - nineteen) we kinda skip the e from -ten (maybe thats why it sounds like we speaks faster. :P)

And another way of counting we have, is that we say ones first, and tens last. but this goes to only from 21 - 99 (not 30, 40 etc). i-ex. tjueen (21) is "en og tjue". and (ett) hundre og sekstifire (164) is: (ett) hundre og fire og seksti. This is more of the "old" ways of counting. (You will probably hear this when speaking to elderly norwegians. but some has learn it down by generations (like myself)