Learn 10 hardest words to pronounce
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| Hello everybody. Welcome back to Top Norwegian words. Today, we are going to look at the 10 Hardest Words to Pronounce in Norwegian. Let’s start. |
| 1. brød "bread" |
| Kneippbrød er veldig vanlig i Norge. "Kneippbread is very common in Norway." |
| Actually if you mistake the pronunciation of brød and say blø, it means bleed. So be careful. |
| 2. Engelsk "English" |
| Alle bør lære seg engelsk for å kommunisere med andre. "Everybody should learn English to communicate with others." |
| Svensk, dansk, tysk, finsk; you can see that all the Norwegian language words actually ends in -sk. |
| 3. hårføner "hair dryer" |
| Jeg bruker aldri hårføner til å tørke håret mitt. "I never use a hair dryer to dry my hair." |
| Actually I am kind of lazy myself. So often, I don’t use a hair dryer. I just let it dry naturally. Yeah. |
| 4. kjole "dress" |
| Denne kjolen er veldig fin. "This dress is really nice." |
| One thing you have to be careful about in Norwegian is that the word dress if you say dress, it actually means suit. So don’t mix them up. |
| 5. Kjøtt "meat" |
| Jeg spiser ikke kjøtt. "I don't eat meat." |
| Well, you know, everybody says that it’s good for the environment not to eat meat. And I wish I had enough willpower to become a vegetarian but not yet. Maybe in the future, who knows! |
| 6. Nysgjerrig "curious" |
| Hunden er veldig nysgjerrig på hva katten gjør. "The dog is very curious about what the cat is doing." |
| I used to have a dog and my dog didn’t care about cats at all. I think cats and dogs are usually not really good friends but sometimes they just ignore each other, I guess. |
| 7. Øl "beer" |
| En kald øl er veldig passende i sommerværet. "A cold beer suits the summer weather well." |
| So I think some of you might have problems pronouncing øl. It kind of sounds like somebody hits you in the stomach. You go like... Yeah, if you get hit in the stomach, maybe you would want to have a cold beer afterwards to cool off. Recently, you know, it’s getting so popular with microbreweries. I think they have a lot of good beer like all the locally produced beers especially. I like to try different types of beer when I go for trips and so on. |
| 8. Smør "butter" |
| Kan du smøre smør på brødskiven? "Can you put butter on the slice of bread?" |
| In Norway, we usually have a lot of bread, brød, for breakfast and then we usually would have smør as one of the common things to put on the bread along with other what we call på lek, which is literally put on. So it’s anything you put on the bread, it’s |
| called på lek. |
| 9. Rådyr "roe deer" |
| Det er vanlig å se rådyr om vinteren. "It is common to see roe deer in the winter." |
| So the word roe deer can have two meanings in Norwegian. The first one as you just heard is roe deer and the other meaning is crazily expensive. |
| So the example sentence I just gave you means, there was a roe deer that got shots and got crazily expensive. |
| 10. Bro "bridge" |
| Den broen var veldig flott! "That bridge was very nice" |
| So as you probably understood, this is about bro, bridge, not as in bro, yo bro! |
| Okay everybody, that’s all for now. Which word did you find the most difficult. Please let us know in the comments section below. Thank you. Bye-bye, ha det bra! |
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