Telling the Time and Dates — Norwegian Grammar

Norwegian tells the time with the word (the clock): "the clock is seven". The half hour works differently from English and needs special attention.

Asking and Answering

"At" a time is simply with the number.

Når begynner du å jobbe? Klokka halv sju.
When do you start work? At half past six.

means half an hour before the hour that is named. So is 6:30, not 7:30.

Up to twenty past, minutes are counted (past) the hour. From twenty past to twenty to, they are counted from the half hour.

Timetables and announcements use the 24-hour clock read as numbers: is 18:30.

To make clear which part of the day is meant, add , or .

Dates use ordinal numbers. Most add -ende or -de; the first ones are irregular.

A date is , the ordinal and the month. In writing, the ordinal is a number with a full stop: 5. oktober.

Years before 2000 are read in hundreds, and years after 2000 in thousands.

In the course

20 of the course's 500 sentences use this, the first in lesson 174. A few of them, with the words “Telling the Time and Dates” is about in bold:

Du er den første som legger merke til det!
You are the first person to notice!
Lesson 337

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