Foods(no)

Heter du Marius?

The verb lager, which translates to make. There's no separate verb for cooking, instead, we use lager mat, literally make food.

Han lager mat. He is cooking.

the food: maten

Measure Words

Remember that in Norwegian, the word for of, av, is omitted where one would normally use it in English to join a measure word with another noun.

Norwegian	English
en kopp kaffe	a cup of coffee
et glass vann	a glass of water

Neat, huh?

en frokost	breakfast
et salt/saltet	salt
et sukker/sukkeret	sugar

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Vocabulary
en/ei melk (m/f)	milk	et glass	glass
en øl/ølen	beer
en/ei suppe (suppen)	soup
en ost/osten	cheese
en ris/risen	rice	et egg/egget	egg
en fisk/fisken	fish
en pasta / pastaen	pasta
en kylling/kyllingen	chicken	et kjøtt/kjøttet	meat
en pepper	pepper (not bell pepper!)
en tomat/tomaten	tomato

En frukt/fruket