Norwegian Lesson 3: Useful Phrases

Useful phrases Pronunciation English

Unnskyld! oohn-sheell Excuse me / sorry!
Hjelp! jehlp Help!
Vær så god! vaer soh goo Please (as in "please help yourself")
Takk for nå. takk for noh Thank you for this time together.
God sommer! goo sohm-mer Have a nice summer!
God tur! goo tewhr Have a nice trip!

More numbers Pronunciation English

tjueen kjew-eh-ehn* twenty-one
tjueto kjew-eh-too twenty-two
tjuetre kjew-eh-treh twenty-three
tjuefire kjew-eh-fee-reh twenty-four
tjuefem kjew-eh-fehmm twenty-five
tjueseks kjew-eh-sehks twenty-six
tjuesju kjew-eh-shew twenty-seven
tjueåtte kjew-eh-oht-teh twenty-eight
tjueni kjew-eh-ni twenty-nine
tretti treht-tee thirty
førti fuhr-tee forty
femti fehmm-tee fifty
seksti sehks-tee sixty
sytti suht-tee seventy
åtti oht-tee eighty
nitti neet-tee ninety
hundre hewn-dreh hundred
tusen tew-sehn thousand
*Note: the "kj" sound is a cross between "sh" and "ch"

A couple of additional ways to look at numbers....

The Norwegian language is often open to a variety of ways to count. Below is an example of
counting by putting the single digit first and the double digit last. Also, twenty and thirty
have to distinct different ways of spelling and pronounciation

More numbers Pronunciation English

enogtjue - enogtyve ehn-oh-kjeweh twenty-one
toogtjue - toogtyve twenty-two
treogtjue - treogtyve twenty-three
fireogtjue - fireogtyve twenty-four
femogtjue - femogtyve twenty-five
seksogtjue - seksogtyve twenty-six
syvogtjuve - syvogtyve twenty-seven
åtteogtjue - åtteogtyve twenty-eight
niogtjue - niogtyve twenty-nine
tretti - tredve treht-tee - tredvhe thirty

Locally, in Sandefjord and the surrounding areas, forty, førti, can also be pronounced førr, but
we are not going to expand on that.

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