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hello! :)

3. What’s your favorite script / writing system?

hmm well the only one i know is the latin alphabet but i think hangul is really pretty!

16. Your favorite regional word or colloquialism in your native dialect of your native language?

Went to the wnc nature center and saw a Friend and a Boy

Hey there! <3

In this case, the “no” is actually a slang-version of the word “noe”, so if the sentence were to be written in “normal” Bokmål, it would be “Han har ikke noe hjem.” 

You can think of “noe” as the Norwegian version of “any” - so the literal translation of this sentence would be “He doesn’t have any home”, but it’s probably more natural to simply say “He doesn’t have a home.”  in English c:

“Har du ikke noe kaffe?” - “Don’t you have any coffee?”

But if you’re speaking to dem good ol’ slang-y youngins, you might sometimes hear: “Har du ikke no’ kaffe?”

Hello! c:

English movies/shows are always subtitled in Norwegian as far as I know. As for animated/children’s movies, you can usually choose whether to watch the dubbed version or the subbed version when you go to the cinema since they tend to have both versions - though when they air on tv they’re usually dubbed (but not always - it depends on the channel). 

Hey there! c:

“Å spørre” is more used when you’re asking someone a question, or asking someone and expecting some kind of answer in return. 

“Å be” is more used when you’re asking someone to do something for you - in other words, you wouldn’t “be” anyone a question, but you would “be” someone to hand you something.

Examples:

“Kan jeg spørre deg om noe?” - “Can I ask you something(a question)?” “Kan jeg be deg om noe?” - “Can I ask you to do something(for me)?”

“Be” can also mean “to pray”, or “to beg”. Also, in past tense (”ba”/”bad”), it can sometimes be translated into “told you to”, as in:

“Jeg ba deg rydde rommet ditt!” - “I told you(asked you) to clean your room!”