"Jeg vil vite hva du heter."
Translation:I want to know what your name is.
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That translation does not sound natural to an English-speaking native.
"Do you know what time it is?" is natural.
"Do you know what is the time?" is unnatural.
it's actually the other way around in some dialects, might be better to accept that placement of "is"
I'm a native English speaker and to me the phrase: "I want to know what's your name" Sounds just as natural. If anything, I'd actually use this over "I want to know what your name is". This is primarily because what you proposed in your examples were questions, whereas these phrases (and the phrase in question, as mentioned by the person above) are not exactly questions. They are rather: statements. Demands. "I want to know..." - demand "Do you know..." - question
Quite agree. As a native English speaker of over 60 years that's what I'd say!
the problem is "what" works both as a n interrogative pronoun and a relative pronoun.
It is an interrogative pronoun in direct questions, involving the use of the auxiliary-subject(-verb) construction, but it would here need a change in punctuation : I want to know : "What is your name?"
It is here a relative pronoun involving indirect question, hence the non-inverted construction : I want to know what your name is.
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I asked a Norwegian, and he said that 'vite' is 'to know', as the example above "jeg vil vite hva du heter" (I want to know what your name is) or "Det er ikke lett å vite" (It isn't easy to know)
And 'vet' is simply 'know' or 'knows' as in 'Jeg vet ditt navn' (I know your name) or 'Hun vet at katten er svart' (She knows that the cat is black).
"å vite" is the infinitive (= "to know"). "Vite" is the equivalent of "know", the verbal stem...
I think of "heter" as "is/are called/named" no idea how accurate this js but it has been working for me
I think you misunderstood :) I would be telling someone my name, but also saying i go by another (nick)name.
Fyi: Nickname is kallenavn in norsk. So... "Jeg heter X, men kallenavet mitt er Y ".
As I see it, "jeg vil vite hva du heter" is reported speech, and "jeg vil vite : hva heter du?" is direct speech. It is the same difference between "I want to know what your name is" and "I want to know : what is your name?"
I'm having a lot of trouble knowing when 'vil' is used to signify wanting something and when it's used as 'will'. Here for example 'vil' is right next to a verb? Is it just by context? Mange takk!
Is there really no way to decide what is the best translation between : "I will know what your name is" and "I want to know what your name is" ?!? I know both are somehow similar but in another sentence it could make a lot of difference, no ?
"I want to know what your name is" the second part of the sentence is indirect speech.
"I want to know : what is your name?" The second part of the sentence is direct speech, the punctuation is slightly different.