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Hei, jeg heter Nora. Hi everybody! I’m Nora.
Welcome to NorwegianClass101.com’s “Norsk på tre minutter”. The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn Norwegian.
In the last lessons, we have learned some of the main ways of using the verb å være “to be”. In this lesson we are going to take a look at a new verb, å ha, which means “to have.”
You can probably guess that å ha can be used to talk about things you own. That will be the topic of this lesson.
Har du en bil? “Do you have a car?”
[slowly] Har du en bil?
Let’s take a closer look at this question.
har means “have”. You can see that å ha has been conjugated to har.
du as you know from our previous lessons means “you” and...
en bil, means “a car”
So if you *do* have a car, how can you answer this question?
Just switch the placement of the verb to after the pronoun– it’s really simple!
So we go from Har du en bil? to
Jeg har en bil. “I have a car.”
The pronoun switches from "du" "you", to "jeg" "I" and moves to the front of the sentence.
[slowly] Jeg har en bil.
So say for example, that a classmate wants to borrow a pen from you. He might ask, Har du en penn? Which is “Do you have a pen?”
If you only have a red pen, you can answer Jeg har en rød penn. “I have a red pen.”
Okay, so now let’s look at another way of using the verb å ha. Say that you want to have something. You can use å ha with the verb vil “to want” in order to say that you want something.
So let’s look at it. Say you want an orange. The sentence would sound like this-
Jeg vil ha en appelsin. “I want an orange”
[slowly] Jeg vil ha en appelsin
You can see that vil, meaning “to want”, is placed after the pronoun and before å ha “to have”. Not surprisingly, this would translate directly to English as “I want to have an orange”.
Jeg vil ha en appelsin.
Now it’s time for Nora’s Insights.
So you might be wondering how to make “I want to have” into the question “do you want?” Well, it couldn’t be simpler! You just switch the place of the pronoun and the verb like har du above.
Vil du ha en appelsin? “Do you want an orange?”
[slowly]Vil du ha en appelsin?
In recent lessons, we have learned about the verbs å være, “to be”, and å ha, “to have”.
Next time we’ll learn how to use these two verbs in their negative forms in order to say “I’m not” and “I don’t have”.
Did you know that to turn a verb into the negative form in Norwegian, you just have to add one little word?
I'll be waiting for you with the explanation in the next Norsk på 3 minutter lesson.
På gjensyn!

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