Example sentences for: norwegian

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

  • English eyebrow and German Augenbraue are matched by Swedish ögenbryn , Norwegian øyebryn , Danish øjenbryn , Icelandic (Old and Mod.) augabrún , Faroese eygnabro .

  • In Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian eye-hair is used for eyelashes: Swed. ögonhår , Dan. øjenhår , Icel. augnahár .

  • Norwegian for “whale food,” krill aggregate in super-swarms that can reach a density of 30,000 individuals per square meter, attracting whales, which can eat three tons of krill in a single feeding, and fisheries, which net on average 100,000 metric tons per year.

  • 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 wrote in Norwegian, of course; I do not know who translated Growth in the edition in which I originally read it (which I think was Modern Library), but as a teenager I was terribly impressed by the writing.


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