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In this lesson we’re going to continue with counting from 11 to 100.
Let’s just quickly review 0-10.
0 null
1 ein (masculine)
ei (feminine)
eitt (neuter)
2 to
3 tre
4 fire
5 fem
6 seks
7 sju
8 åtte
9 ni
10 ti
Now let’s continue with 11 to 20.
11 elleve
(slow) el-le-ve
elleve
12 tolv
(slow) tolv
tolv
13 tretten
(slow) tret-ten
tretten
14 fjorten
(slow) fjor-ten
fjorten
15 femten
(slow) fem-ten
femten
16 seksten
(slow) seks-ten
seks-ten
17 sytten
(slow) syt-ten
sytten
18 atten
(slow) at-ten
atten
19 nitten
(slow) nit-ten
nitten
20 tjue
(slow) tju-e
tjue
You probably noticed that most of the numbers between tolv – twelve and tjue - twenty; follow the pattern of number plus ten. There are some “gotchas” which you'll have to learn, but these shouldn't be too difficult.
Let’s count in tens from ten until one hundred.
10 ti
(slow) ti
ti
20 tjue
(slow) tju-e
tjue
30 tretti
(slow) tret-ti
tretti
40 førti
(slow) før-ti
førti
50 femti
(slow) fem-ti
femti
60 seksti
(slow) seks-ti
seksti
70 sytti
(slow) syt-ti
sytti
80 åtti
(slow) åt-ti
åtti
90 nitti
(slow) nit-ti
nitti
Finally, we have hundre, which is “a hundred.”
100 hundre
(slow) hun-dre
hundre
Now that we learned the tens let’s learn counting the numbers that are in between.
21 sounds like this: tjueein.
Tjue means “twenty.”
(slow) Tjue-e.
Tjue.
And ein of course means “one.”
The whole number is tjueein literally “twenty one.”
Let’s make some sentences using numbers now.
Here is the first one:
“I am 21 years old.”
Eg er tjueeitt år gamal.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Eg er tju-e-eitt år ga-mal.
Once again:
Eg er tjueeitt år gamal.
Eg er is the pronoun Eg, meaning “I,” followed by er, meaning “am.”
(slow) Eg er.
Eg er.
The next word, tjueeitt, means “twenty one.”
(slow) Tju-e-eitt.
Tjueeitt.
Finally, we have år gamal, meaning “years old.”
(slow) År ga-mal
År ga-mal.
All together, we have
Eg er tjueeitt år gamal.
Let’s try making the Nynorsk word for “fifty three.” “Fifty” is femti and “three” is tre. Putting them together, we have femtitre or “fifty three.”
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Fem-ti-tre.
And once more:
Femtitre.
Let’s use femtitre to say “I have fifty three kroner”
Eg har femtitre kroner.
Let’s break it down:
(slow) Eg har fem-ti-tre kro-ner.
Once again:
Eg har femtitre kroner.
Eg har is the pronoun Eg, meaning “I,” followed by the present form of the verb å ha (har), meaning “to have.”
(slow) Eg har.
Eg har.
The next word, femtitre, of course means “fifty three.”
(slow) Fem-ti-tre.
Femtitre.
The last word kroner, is the name of the Norwegian currency.
All together, we have
Eg har femtitre kroner.

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