Example sentences for: norwegian

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

  • 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.

  • They came to the notice of the Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, internationally acclaimed for his transoceanic crossings with prehistoric vessels and theories about human migration.

  • 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).

  • For eyelid, several Scandinavian languages have words ending with the element lok , etc. (lock, cover, lid), for example, Swedish ögonlock , Danish øjenlåg , Norwegian øyelokk , Faroese eygnalok .

  • 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.


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