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Intro

Hi everybody! Anette here. Welcome to Ask a Teacher, where I’ll answer some of your most common Norwegian questions.
The Question
The question for this lesson is…What’s the difference between inn and inne?
Explanation
Norwegian expresses the concepts of "being at a place" and "moving to a place" with different words, whereas English has just one word for expressing both. You may be familiar with her and hit, both meaning, “here,” so we’ll focus on different pairs of similar words. Let's have a look.
In the two words inn and inne, it's only an e that makes them different. You can tell them apart by remembering that e indicates location and no e expresses movement.
Let’s do some examples so you can learn how to use inn and inne correctly.
Let’s start with inne--
Jeg er inne which means “I’m inside.”
An example sentence using inn would be Jeg går inn meaning “I'm going in.”
There are other pairs of words in Norwegian that follow this same pattern. Let’s take a look at some more.
Hjemme and hjem both mean “home.” However, we use hjemme for the location of “home” and hjem for movement towards “home.” For example--
Han er hjemme. meaning “He’s at home.”
Han dro hjem which means “He went home.”
Let’s do one more example with ned and nede which both mean “down.” Nede is used for the location of “down” and ned is used for movement towards “down.”
Jeg er her nede means “I'm down here,” and
Vi går ned. “We're going downstairs.”

Outro

How was this lesson? Pretty interesting right?
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Hade. Vi sees senere!
Bye. See you later!

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