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INTRODUCTION
Jasmine: Hi everyone, Jasmine here.
Philip: Hei, jeg er Philip And I am Philip.
Jasmine: Welcome back to NorwegianClass101.com. This is Basic Bootcamp Lesson 4, Counting from 1 to 100 in Norwegian. This is the fourth in a five-part series that will help you ease your way into Norwegian.
Philip: In this lesson, you will learn one of the essentials in Norwegian. Numbers.
Jasmine: So everybody pull out your abacuses.
Philip: Like what?
Jasmine: Just kidding.
Philip: At least we will try to make learning numbers as easy for you as using an Abacus.
Jasmine: Yes we will start with the basics. In this lesson, we will count from 1 to 10.
Philip: Okay. Now this conversation takes place at a gym.
Jasmine: That’s right. It’s between Ole and his coach who will be counting his push-ups.
Philip: Okay. Let’s listen to the conversation.
DIALOGUE
A: en (1),
B: og
A: to (2)
B: og
A: tre (3)
B: og
A: fire (4)
B: og
A: fem (5)
B: og
A: seks (6)
B: og
A: syv (7)
B: og
A: åtte (8)
B: og
A: ni (9)
B: og
A: ti (10).
Jasmine: Let's here it slowly now.
A: en (1),
B: og
A: to (2)
B: og
A: tre (3)
B: og
A: fire (4)
B: og
A: fem (5)
B: og
A: seks (6)
B: og
A: syv (7)
B: og
A: åtte (8)
B: og
A: ni (9)
B: og
A: ti (10).
Jasmine: And now the translation.
A: en (1),
A: one
B: og
B: And
A: to (2)
A: two
B: og
B: And
A: tre (3)
A: three
B: og
B: And
A: fire (4)
A: four
B: og
B: And
A: fem (5)
A: five
B: og
B: And
A: seks (6)
A: six
B: og
B: And
A: syv (7)
A: seven
B: og
B: And
A: åtte (8)
A: eight
B: og
B: And
A: ni (9)
A: nine
B: og
B: And
A: ti (10).
A: ten.
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Jasmine: I feel like I’ve heard a lot of those words before somehow.
Philip: Very true. I think you can hear the likeness to a lot of English numbers.
Jasmine: Like 2?
Philip: Yes. You will find many examples of words and especially numbers that are very similar.
Jasmine: And once you learn the basics, you will be able to build larger numbers by putting together different parts of the words.
Philip: Just like bricks when building a house.
Jasmine: Comparing a number to building a house doesn’t sound easy to me.
Philip: Don’t worry. We are going to go over them in a way that’s really easy to understand.
Jasmine: Basically Philip is going to read out each number and you have to repeat after him.
VOCAB LIST
Philip: Okay here we go. I will say it and give you time to repeat aloud after me. En.
Jasmine: One.
Philip: To.
Jasmine: Two.
Philip: Tre.
Jasmine: Three.
Philip: Fire.
Jasmine: Four.
Philip: Fem.
Jasmine: Five.
Philip: Seks.
Jasmine: Six.
Philip: Syv.
Jasmine: Seven.
Philip: Åtte.
Jasmine: Eight.
Philip: Ni.
Jasmine: Nine.
Philip: Ti.
Jasmine: Ten.
Philip: Og.
Jasmine: And
Philip: Og. Og.

Lesson focus

Jasmine: Okay. So we more or less mastered the basic numbers 1 to 10 but how can we count above 10.
Philip: Well we form the numbers 13 through 19 simply by adding 10 to the numbers 3 through 9. There are two exceptions though but the main thing to remember is 10.
Jasmine: So how does it go?
Philip: Elleve, Tolv, Tretten, Fjorten, Femten, Seksten, Sytten, Atten, Nitten. 11 and 12 are two numbers you need to learn separately as they don’t have a logical structure like numbers 13 to 19. Repeat after me. Elleve, Tolv.
Jasmine: Great. We have covered the most difficult part. Now let’s take a look at the multiples of 10 which once you know 1 to 10 are really easy.
Philip: 20, 70 and 100 are the only ones that stand out this time. Tjue, Sytti, Hundre.
Jasmine: Other than these three, you add “ti” as an ending to your number.
Philip: So 50 would be femti.
Jasmine: Listen and repeat.
Philip: femti
Jasmine: So as you might have noticed, fem is number 5 and ti indicates that it’s a multiple of 10. Here are the rest.
Philip: Listeners, repeat after me. Treti, Førti, Femti, Seksti, Sytti, Åtti, Nitti.
Jasmine: Okay we are done with the multiples of 10. Now I am going to venture into some other important number territory but still not higher than 100 to start.
Philip: Yes no number overloading.
Jasmine: So what number could we use? I know. How old are you Philip?
Philip: Me? I am 25.
Jasmine: So to make a number that isn’t a denomination of 10, here is all you do. 20, 20 remember is tjue. Now all you do is add on the rest.
Philip: tjuefem.
Jasmine: Great because fem is a number for five. So all you have to do is say 20 plus a 5 on the end.
Philip: So let’s try with one more number.
Jasmine: And what’s 31 in Norwegian?
Philip: Trettien.
Jasmine: Yes because it’s 30 plus en which is a number for 1. Okay. Now let’s take a look at today’s grammar point. Cardinal and ordinal numbers.
Philip: So we got down most numbers but these are only known as cardinals used to count quantity. What if you want to say for example May 17 using an Ordinal number?
Jasmine: Even in English, these are different. So starting from 1, what are the ordinal numbers in Norwegian?
Philip: Første.
Jasmine: First.
Philip: Andre.
Jasmine: Second
Philip: Tredje.
Jasmine: Third. Let’s try with some examples.
Philip: Første november.
Jasmine: November 1st.
Philip: Andre gangen.
Jasmine: The second time.
Philip: Tredje huset for høyre.
Jasmine: The third house from the right. As you can see, these numbers change significantly when ordinal. The thing is that in Norwegian as in English, all cardinal numbers from 1 to 1 million have ordinal equivalents.
Philip: So as a short introduction, let’s list the first 12 ones here.
Jasmine: All right. So continuing from 3rd, we have
Philip: Fjerde.
Jasmine: Fourth.
Philip: Femte.
Jasmine: Fifth.
Philip: Sjette.
Jasmine: Sixth.
Philip: Syvende.
Jasmine: Seventh.
Philip: Åttende.
Jasmine: Eighth.
Philip: Niende.
Jasmine: Ninth.
Philip: Tiende.
Jasmine: Tenth. And again 11 and 12 follow their own logic.
Philip: Ellevte.
Jasmine: 11th
Philip: Tolvte.
Jasmine: 12th
Philip: All right. After 12, we have from 13th to 19th and like English, there is a logic.
Jasmine: Right. To make cardinal numbers from 13 to 19 ordinal, just add “de” at the end of the cardinal number.
Philip: Like Trettende.
Jasmine: 13th
Philip: And Fjortende.
Jasmine: 14th.
Philip: Okay well that’s not so bad right.

Outro

Jasmine: Just keep practicing and you will have them down soon enough. Well that’s going to do it for this lesson.
Philip: Thanks for listening. Hade.
Jasmine: See you all next time.

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