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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 lesson, we learned how to talk about your plans. In this lesson, we are going to deal with the verb “to be” in Norwegian, å være.
We will also discuss how to talk about your nationality.
When you meet a new person in Norway, they might ask you Hvor er du fra? which is the equivalent of "Where are you from?"
Hvor means where, and you’re familiar with du, the word for "you."
er is a conjugated form of the verb “to be”, å være.
fra means "from?"
All together it's Hvor er du fra?
[slowly] Hvor er du fra?
Answering this question is very easy! You just say Jeg er, which means "I am", then your nationality.
For example- Jeg er amerikansk
I am American.
[slowly] Jeg er amerikansk.
Just replace amerikansk with your own nationality.
"I am German" is Jeg er tysk.
"I am Italian" is Jeg er italiensk.
"I am English" is Jeg er engelsk.
You can also add the fra after jeg er to give the sentence a bit more substance. In that case you would also have to change the nationality to the name of the country, like we do in English; “I am from...”
For example, if you are from France you say,
Jeg er fra Frankrike
[slowly] Jeg er fra Frankrike
Or if you are from Australia you say-
Jeg er fra Australia
[slowly]Jeg er fra Australia
To return the question you can simply say og du? which is "And you?”
Now it’s time for Nora’s Insights.
Be careful because in Norwegian, we don’t write nationality names with a capital letter like in English!
It’s the same with languages. But we do write country names with a capital letter so don’t confuse them.
In this lesson we learned how to talk about nationalities.
Next time we’ll continue to study the verb å være and we'll see how to use it to talk about locations. By the way, do you know how to ask someone where they are in Norwegian? I'll be waiting for you with the answer in the next Norsk på 3 minutter lesson.
På gjensyn!

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