Norwegian dictionary

Norway map

Norwegian Norsk

Dictionary - Ordbok

• Ordnett, Norwegian dictionary: meanings, synonyms, etymology

• Norske ordbøker: Norwegian dictionary (Bokmål & Nynorsk) meanings in Norwegian

• Lexin: Norwegian dictionary (Bokmål) for foreigners

• vocabulary with pictures (Bokmål & Nynorsk)

• online translation: Norwegian-English & other languages & web page

• Apertium: Norwegian bokmål-nynorsk translation

• Norwegian-English dictionary (& Danish-English, Swedish-English)

• Norwegian-German dictionary

• usual expressions Norwegian-English with audio (Loecsen)

• Norwegian words: origins of the most famous names: ski, fjord, saga...

• dictionary of rhyms

• geographical names & names of the countries (Norsk språkråd, Norwegian language Council)

• historical names

• Systematical vocabulary, English-Norwegian (Danish) by Tyra Bentsen (1907) by topics

• Dictionary of the English and Dano-Norwegian languages by John Brynildsen (1902)

      A-L & N-Z

• Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog: dictionary of the Norwegian People's Language (has become nynorsk) by Ivar Aasen (1850)

• Norsk ordbog [PDF] : Norwegian dictionary by Ivar Aasen (1873) (from: Ivar Aasen-tunet)

• Norsk-lappisk ordbog: Norwegian-Lapp dictionary by Nils Vibe Stockfleth (1852)

• Norwegisch-dänisches etymologisches Wörterbuch: etymological dictionary by Hjalmar Sejersted Falk & Alf Torp (1910)

      A-O & P-Ø

• Ordbog over det gamle norske sprog: dictionary over the old Norwegian language, by Johan Fritzner (1867)

Norwegian language

• Norwegian keyboard to type the special characters of the Norwegian alphabet

• verb conjugation (bokmål) & Norwegian-English translation

• Norwegian course, pronunciation

• Norwegian grammar

• Colloquial Norwegian: Norwegian course & basic vocabulary

• Teach yourself Norwegian (1997)

• Instant Norwegian (1993)

• Norwegian self-taught with phonetic pronunciation, by Illit Gröndahl (1920)

• Beginners' book in Norse by Johan Andreas Holvik (1910)

• Norwegian grammar and reader with notes and vocabulary, by Julius Olson (1898)

• Practical and easy method of learning the Danish and Norwegian languages by H. Lund (1900)

• Danish and Dano-Norwegian grammar by Peter Groth (1894)

• Grammar of the Dano-Norwegian language by J. Y. Sargent (1892)

• Norsk grammatik [PDF] New Norwegian grammar by Ivar Aasen (1864)

• The phonology of the dialect of Aurland (north-east from Bergen) by George Tobias (1915)

• books about Norwegian language: Google books & Internet archive

The two languages of Norway

There are two Norwegian languages:
- Bokmål (literaly: book language) influenced by the Danish: it is the language of the Norwegian literature.
- Nynorsk [-shk] (literaly: New Norwegian) close to the old Norwegian.

• introduction to the Nynorsk language

News - Nyheter

• Aftenposten - Stavanger Aftenblad - Dagens IT

• NRK (Norsk rikskringkasting): Norwegian radio & television

• news (Dagsrevyen)

• radio online

• Google news

Texts & Literature

• texts: Norwegian literature

• Henrik Ibsen: books

• Henrik Ibsen: biography by Edmund Gosse (1908)

• the Bible in Norwegian: Bokmål & Nynorsk

-> bilingual Bible in Norwegian & other languages

First article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Bokmål:

Alle mennesker er født frie og med samme menneskeverd og menneskerettigheter.
De er utstyrt med fornuft og samvittighet og bør handle mot hverandre i brorskapets ånd.

Nynorsk:

Alle menneske er fødde til fridom og med same menneskeverd og menneskerettar.
Dei har fått fornuft og samvit og skal leve med kvarandre som brør.

-> First article in different languages

-> Declaration of Human Rights: bilingual text, in Norwegian, English, Danish, Swedish...

Norway - Norge

• Norway: maps, symbols, heritage & documents

-> Danish - Icelandic - Swedish

-> Germanic languages (in French)