Example sentences for: norwegian

How can you use “norwegian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Few devotees of Michael Jackson begrudge him his llamas, or even the young Scandinavian lad, winner of a Norwegian Michael Jackson look-alike competition, who accompanies him on his world travels.

  • But Norwegian has øyevipper for eyelash (compare Ger Augenwimper ), and Danish has, in addition to øjenhår , a secondary word for eyelash, øjenvipper .

  • By the time I graduated from college, I had studied Latin and French for eleven years, Greek for four, German and Old English for two, Lithuanian and Sanskrit for one, and had established a passing acquaintance with Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish.

  • Hamsun, a Norwegian, won the Nobel prize in 1920 and is seldom talked about these days, though, as far as I am aware, his books are in print; in any event, they are available from the library.

  • Run-of-the-mill trompes l'oeil in every language are foreign words in disguise: Norwegian byra (French bureau ); Dutch kadotje (French cadeau + Dutch - tje ); Chinese qiao ke li (Aztec xocolatl chocolate).


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