ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses how to use demonstratives to indicate distance, how to go shopping for clothes and mobile phones. It discusses also how to use loan words from English and use comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. Demonstratives indicate distance from the speaker, and must agree in number and gender with the noun. Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives are usually created by adding endings -ere for comparative, and -est for superlative, regardless of gender or number. The superlative, like the positive form of the adjective, also has a definite form, ending in -e. In addition, there is a definite article before the adjective, and the noun is in the definite form. Norwegian has always received words from other languages, including English. Mobile phones are ubiquitous in Norway. With the increased popularity of smart phones, usage is expanding from texts and talk to increased use of the phones to take photos and videos and to access the internet.