r/norsk • u/dwchandler • Mar 24 '19

Søndagsspørsmål #272 - Sunday Question Thread

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u/Akihiko95 Mar 27 '19

I was watching an episode of skam (something that i recommend doing to other norwegian language learners) to sharpen my listening skills, and there was a point where a character asked to her friend something like "when are your parents coming back home?" and the norwegian reply was "I morgen tidlig, tror jeg"

Can someone explain why there's inversion of subject and verb here (tror jeg vs jeg tror) and/or if saying "i morgen tidlig, jeg tror" would sound natural at all?

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u/RoomRocket Native Speaker Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

No, it has to be "tror jeg".

I'm pretty sure it's because it's a leddsetning and the word order is fixed with the verb after the subject.

Check 3 Leddsetninger https://norskfordeg.no/ressurser/norsk-for-deg-grammatikk/helsetninger-og-leddsetninger/

Edit: I think what makes this hard is that there's an "at" when you say it fully. "Jeg tror at de kommer i morgen"

But I'm confusing myself now. "I morgen, tror jeg <at de kommer >"

Someone help

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u/Akihiko95 Mar 29 '19

Yeah i thought that the v2 rule was responsible for this but i had to be sure. Thanks for the support as always