"Han får inn dansk fjernsyn på kanal tjue."

Translation: He receives Danish television on channel twenty.

[metalbunny]

How many people nowadays uses "fjernsyn"? is it only the "grandparents"? or is there also young people? just curious

[griffindd]

"The dominant expression for television in Norwegian is TV.
The term fjernsyn is in principle self-explanatory for most
Norwegians, but the clarity and transparency often have to
give up for shorter forms."

from
Exploring Newspaper Language: Using the Web to Create and Investigate a Large Corpus of Modern Norwegian
edited by Gisle Andersen

[metalbunny]

why can't you say "kanal 20"? i thought writing the numbers was only under 10...

[griffindd]

maybe you can think of it as a free chance to practise numbers in Norwegian...

[metalbunny]

den er grei, men jeg mener fortsatt at den ikke burde vært "feil"...

[fveldig]

'kanal 20' is accepted, and the rule is for numbers below 13.

[metalbunny]

i wrote "kanal 20" and got it wrong...