Word
Han bor i fjerde etasje.
Meaning
He lives on the fourth floor.
Part of speech
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Pronunciation
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Questions & Answers about Han bor i fjerde etasje.
What does bor mean exactly?
Bor is the present tense of å bo, which means to live or to reside somewhere.
So Han bor i fjerde etasje uses bo because it is talking about where he lives, not just where he happens to be at the moment.
Compare:
- Han bor i fjerde etasje = that is where he lives.
- Han er i fjerde etasje = he is on the fourth floor right now.
Why is it fjerde and not fire?
Because fire means four, while fjerde means fourth.
Norwegian uses an ordinal number here, just like English does in fourth floor.
- fire = four
- fjerde = fourth
So fjerde etasje means fourth floor.
Why does Norwegian use i when English says on the fourth floor?
This is a preposition difference between the two languages. Norwegian normally says i fjerde etasje, even though English says on the fourth floor.
Prepositions often do not match directly across languages, so it is best to learn this as a natural Norwegian expression:
- bo i første etasje
- bo i andre etasje
- bo i fjerde etasje
Even if on feels more logical from English, i is the normal Norwegian choice here.