"Han får inn dansk fjernsyn på kanal tjue."
Translation:He receives Danish television on channel twenty.
November 15, 2015
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How many people nowadays uses "fjernsyn"? is it only the "grandparents"? or is there also young people? just curious
November 16, 2015
"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
November 16, 2015
why can't you say "kanal 20"? i thought writing the numbers was only under 10...
November 15, 2015
maybe you can think of it as a free chance to practise numbers in Norwegian...
November 15, 2015
