Vi gleder oss til fotballkampen.

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Breakdown of Vi gleder oss til fotballkampen.

• oss: us
• glede seg til: to look forward to
• fotballkampen: the football match

Questions & Answers about Vi gleder oss til fotballkampen.

What does the phrase gleder oss mean, and why is oss used here?

“Glede seg” is a reflexive verb meaning “to look forward to” or “to be pleased about something.” The word oss is the first-person plural reflexive pronoun (“ourselves”), so gleder oss literally means “(we) rejoice ourselves,” i.e. “we look forward.”

What is the literal translation of Vi gleder oss til fotballkampen?

Literally it’s “We rejoice ourselves to the football match.” Idiomatically in English: “We are looking forward to the football match.”

What is the role of til in this sentence?

Here til is a preposition used with glede seg to introduce the thing you’re looking forward to. So gleder seg til noe = “to look forward to something.” It is not the infinitive marker “to” (as in “to do something”).

Why is fotballkampen written as one word and why does it end with -en?

Norwegian forms compound nouns by joining words: fotballkamp (“football match”). The suffix -en marks the definite form (“the football match”). So fotballkampen = “the football match.”

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