Uz-Translations NORWEGIAN A book on Self-instruction in the Norwegian Bokmal Alf Sommerfelt Completely revised and enlarged by Ingvald Marm ‘TEACH YOURSELF BOOKS‘Long renomned she authori sot fe el gud ening with mor than Soman copes wore te Tesch Youn stn ns nr 20 ent ‘heel ingnes alts toes por, ander ese ats itary of Cones Ctl Car Nunber 8282508 arbi in UK 180 Hod Henn 38 Eton Ro, Lion NW Fist poised in US 1988 by NTC Publishing Grou, £255 Wet Toby Avenue, [nclawood (Chicago), nos Sots I97SUSA Cortight © 1967 Hodder & Stoughton Lid pie iperere tata etre Pee etree teenies Soe eee eee eee te eae eens mae er aw ‘Toten Court Ron, Landon WIP SHE = 1 US Allright reseed No part of his bok may be opr orein ‘eter gem or enn eu oot ty mean Secon mesic, potcaping othr thou rr pom t NTC Pabahig Group ‘Prien England Coe Wyman Li, Reading, Berkshire New don 1967 eted 192 Imprnionmanber 35 34 30 32 31 m0 29 28 27 25 Yor 1999 938 197 1994 Tons 1986 Chapter I Chapter II Chapter IIT Chapter 1V Chapter V CONTENTS Introduction PART I ‘The Sounds in Norwegian Bae Norwegian Alphabet i Digna Ecesonant Combinations ‘Mate Consonants ‘Strese Intonation PART IT GRAMMAR ‘The Noun—Genders ‘The Verb Tie Prat Tene te Imperti ‘B Conjogation of Weak Regulae) Ve Gass Se “ot Cla ® iS Hi: he sen Cam ete on epie—ieke ‘Note ot eset ” 8Chapter VI Chapter VIT (Chapter VIII Chapter IX, Chapter X, Irregular Weak Verbs with diferent "Wowels Yn the Past Tense and: Past Partcipe cue IIT thee Case Glass IV: the -dde Class ‘The Verbs tente, to, mene, syncs ‘The relative pronoun som = wo, Pretminary Notes on Word Order ‘Strong oe Iregular Verbs Clase 45 Cae 8 Clas 7 ‘Renddriog ofthe English Continaoos How to form Questions in Norwegian Negative Sentences ‘Answering Words in Norwegian Pince of ke (act) in Subordinate Gansee ‘The Passive Voice Passive in English —Indiative in "Norwegian Further Remar ‘Proposition a Codinente on Fave Deter = iets there is fon the Sorma ‘The Adjective ‘The Indefinite Dectenson ‘Be Bente Dedenton' Adjectives ‘Sorening of Vowel betore the Neuter “ Indeclinable Adjectives Using the Adjective es Noun, Comparison of Adjectives Some Irregularities inthe Comparison Comparisan by mer and mest {Ute dfthe Comparativeand Superlative so 33 56 6 n (Chapter XT Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Numerals. ‘The Cardinals The Ordinale SiapleSame ‘iden time, Navn pA maneder of, ‘Fractions (broker), Collective Num- ers Further Notes, ‘The Adverb 88 ‘A. Those formed from Adjectives ot Adverts STadependent Adverbe ‘Aivertn with Double Forms (hlem= ‘Compound Verbs 7 Modal Auxiliaries 9° ‘The Future Tenses skal og vil—Fetare "Perect--Future in the Past ‘More on skal and vil Ot Romain’ Kan my ber, er ‘Adjectives: 108 Personal Pronouns