Animals Flashcards
Many animal names in Norwegian share etymological ties with _______ ones, but the meaning has drifted over time in one direction or another.
English
Norwegian
hund
🐶
dog
fugl
🐦
bird
elg
🦌
moose
dyr
animal
katt
🐱
cat
bjørn
bear
krabbe
crab
elefant
🐘
elephant
ulv
🐻
wolf
mus
🐁
mouse
Grammatical and Biological Gender
After being introduced to nouns such as ___ jente, en gutt, and et barn, you’d be forgiven for thinking that there was a correlation between a word’s grammatical gender and its biological gender, or sex.
However, this is not the case. Grammatical gender is a completely independent concept. While en hund is a masculine noun, that does not imply that the dog we’re referring to is male, that’s just the grammatical gender of the word itself.
ei
et dyr
an animal
en elg
🐁
a moose
en/ei and
🦆
a duck
en hest
🐎
a horse
en hund
🐩
a dog
en fugl
🐦
a bird
en bjørn
a bear
en edderkopp
🕷
a spider
en ulv
🐻
a wolf
elgen
🦌
the moose
katten
🐈
the cat
hesten
🐴
the horse
