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Learn Hardcore Norwegian: Quizlaget møtes her. - The quiz team meets here.

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Quizlaget møtes her.

Quizlaget møtes her.

The quiz team meets here.

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Questions & Answers about Quizlaget møtes her.

What does quizlaget mean as a single word?

It is a compound noun:

quiz = quiz
lag = team, side, group

So quizlaget literally means the quiz team.

Norwegian uses compound words very freely, much more than English does.

Why is quizlaget written as one word, not two?

Because Norwegian normally writes compounds as one word.

So:

quizlag = quiz team
quizlaget = the quiz team

If you split it into two words, it would usually look wrong in Norwegian. This is very common for English speakers, because English often writes similar expressions as separate words.

Why does quizlaget end in -et?

The ending -et marks the noun as definite singular for a neuter noun.

The base noun is et lag = a team.

Its forms are:

et lag = a team
laget = the team

So:

et quizlag = a quiz team
quizlaget = the quiz team

Is Quizlaget capitalized because it is a name?

Not necessarily. It is capitalized here because it is the first word in the sentence.

In the middle of a sentence, it would normally be:

quizlaget

Only proper names are normally capitalized in Norwegian, just as in English.

What does møtes mean here?

Here, møtes means meet in the sense of come together or meet each other.

So the idea is that the members of the quiz team gather here.

A useful way to think about it is:

møtes = meet each other / get together

Why is it møtes and not møter?

This is a very common question.

møter is the ordinary present tense of å møte = to meet
møtes is used when the meaning is more like meet each other or gather

Compare:

Vi møter læreren her. = We meet the teacher here.
Vi møtes her. = We meet here. / We meet each other here.

So in Quizlaget møtes her, the -s helps show that the team members are meeting one another, not meeting some outside person.

Is møtes a passive form?

It is related to the -s form, which can sometimes look like a passive, but here it is best understood as a reciprocal meaning: meeting each other.

So in this sentence, it does not really mean:

is met here

It means more naturally:

meets here
gathers here
gets together here

Is this sentence in the present tense?

Yes. Møtes is present tense.

Depending on context, a Norwegian present tense can mean:

a habitual action: The quiz team meets here
a current arrangement: The quiz team is meeting here
sometimes even a near-future plan

Without extra context, The quiz team meets here is the most neutral reading.

Why is her at the end of the sentence?

Because that is a very normal, neutral word order in Norwegian.

The sentence follows the common pattern:

subject + verb + place adverb

So:

Quizlaget møtes her.

This sounds natural and straightforward.

If you move her to the front:

Her møtes quizlaget.

that puts more emphasis on here.

Do Norwegian verbs change depending on the subject, like I meet, she meets, they meet in English?

No. In Norwegian, verbs do not change for person or number in the present tense.

So the verb form stays the same:

vi møtes
de møtes
quizlaget møtes

This is simpler than English, because you do not need a special -s form for he/she/it.

Why is a singular noun used if a team contains several people?

Because quizlaget is grammatically singular, even though it refers to a group of people.

This works much like English the team. A team has many members, but the noun itself is singular.

So Norwegian says:

Quizlaget møtes her.

even though the action involves multiple people within the team.

How would I say a quiz team meets here instead of the quiz team meets here?

You would use the indefinite form:

Et quizlag møtes her.

Compare:

Et quizlag = a quiz team
Quizlaget = the quiz team

So the difference is the same basic definite/indefinite distinction as in English.

How is this sentence pronounced?

A rough pronunciation guide is:

Quizlaget ≈ KVISS-lah-guh
møtes ≈ MØH-tes
her ≈ hehr

A few notes:

quiz in Norwegian is often pronounced close to kviss
the vowel ø in møtes does not exist in standard English
in many accents, the final -et in laget is pronounced weakly, and the t may be very soft or not clearly heard

So the full sentence is approximately:

KVISS-lah-guh MØH-tes hehr

Dialect can change the pronunciation quite a bit, though.

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