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What is the difference among ny,nytt or nye?
What is the difference among ny,nytt or nye?
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@chili398 There are nine vowels in Norwegian: A, E, I, O, U, Y, Æ, Ø, Å (lower case: a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø, å). Each letter is pronounced the same as its standard value. Pronunciation is mostly 1-to-1, but there are some common exceptions:
- "e" is often pronounced differently when unstressed
- "æ" is sometimes pronounced as "e"
- "u" is often pronounced as "o" when short
- "o" is usually pronounced as "å" when short, and occasionally when short
Norwegian has contrastive vowel length. Every vowel has a short and a long version, which (phonemically) differ only in terms of duration. As each of the nine vowels have distinct pronunciations, this gives a total of eighteen vowel phonemes, disregarding diphthongs.
Diphthongs are common, the most frequent being "ai", "au", "ei" and "øy". "au" and "ei" both start with the "æ" sound despite the spelling. The use of "y" in "øy" is merely convention, the expected spelling is "øi".
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Norwegian adjectives each have three separate inflections based on gender and number.
Suffix:
Singular common (masculine and feminine): none
Singular neuter: "-tt" if the adjective stem begins in a vowel, "-t" in all other cases
Plural: -e
There are some exceptions, such as when the common form ends in a consonant cluster ending in "t", in which case both singular forms are the same (the logic being that the pronunciation wouldn't change anyway, and consonant clusters cannot end in double letters in Norwegian). There is also a change to the end of the stem for the plural in some cases, such as in "gammel"/"gammelt"/"gamle". The same process also happens to some nouns, such as in "sykkel"/"sykkelen"/"sykler"/"syklene" (the first two inflections being singular and the last two plural).
The "-e" suffix is also used when the words "den", "det" or "de" precede an adjective referencing a noun. So it's "den kjekke mannen", "den vakre kvinnen", "det gamle huset" and "de svarte kattene", even though only the latter is plural. There is virtually no useful information to get out of this anyway, as noun suffixes almost always show gender and number to the same degree or greater than any words which may reference them; Norwegian requires agreement in number and gender, but it is not a particularly helpful feature in terms of figuring our gender, number or meaning.
The common singular form is in some ways seen as the standard form, but the neuter form is the most versatile, as it is the one used when not referencing a noun or pronoun; When adjectives don't refer back (or forward) to another word, the neuter form is used. Adverbs tend to be the same as the neuter adjectival form as well.
Please ask if something is unclear. I put in a lot of tangential information which may be confusing. I'd be happy to give examples, for instance.
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Tusen takk! You really help me a lot. And one more question, what are the vowels in Norwegian?
- Norwegian (bokmal)
- Norwegian (nynorsk)
@chili398 There are nine vowels in Norwegian: A, E, I, O, U, Y, Æ, Ø, Å (lower case: a, e, i, o, u, y, æ, ø, å). Each letter is pronounced the same as its standard value. Pronunciation is mostly 1-to-1, but there are some common exceptions:
- "e" is often pronounced differently when unstressed
- "æ" is sometimes pronounced as "e"
- "u" is often pronounced as "o" when short
- "o" is usually pronounced as "å" when short, and occasionally when short
Norwegian has contrastive vowel length. Every vowel has a short and a long version, which (phonemically) differ only in terms of duration. As each of the nine vowels have distinct pronunciations, this gives a total of eighteen vowel phonemes, disregarding diphthongs.
Diphthongs are common, the most frequent being "ai", "au", "ei" and "øy". "au" and "ei" both start with the "æ" sound despite the spelling. The use of "y" in "øy" is merely convention, the expected spelling is "øi".
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Ny means new nytt is use like i got someting nytt and nye is more new things
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@NikolaiAntony What is "nytt is used like i got something nytt" supposed to mean? And they ALL mean "new". Their specific usage cases is the important part.
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