"Han får inn dansk fjernsyn på kanal tjue."
Translation:He receives Danish television on channel twenty.
2 years ago
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metalbunny
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How many people nowadays uses "fjernsyn"? is it only the "grandparents"? or is there also young people? just curious
2 years ago
griffindd
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"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
2 years ago
metalbunny
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why can't you say "kanal 20"? i thought writing the numbers was only under 10...
2 years ago
griffindd
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maybe you can think of it as a free chance to practise numbers in Norwegian...
2 years ago
'kanal 20' is accepted, and the rule is for numbers below 13.
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