Breakdown of Jeg vanner blomster i hagen hver morgen.
Questions & Answers about Jeg vanner blomster i hagen hver morgen.
Å vanne means “to water.” In Norwegian present tense, you take the infinitive stem and add -r. The form is the same for all subjects:
• jeg vanner
• du vanner
• han/hun vanner
• vi vanner
• dere vanner
• de vanner
Past tense is vann (e.g. jeg vann planter), and the perfect participle is vannet (e.g. jeg har vannet).
Norwegian follows the V2 rule: the verb must be second.
• Standard: Jeg vanner blomster i hagen hver morgen.
• Fronted adverbial: Hver morgen vanner jeg blomster i hagen.
Both are correct; you only move the verb to follow the fronted time expression.
Both describe a habitual action in the morning, but:
• hver morgen = “every morning,” emphasizing each separate occasion.
• om morgenen = “in the mornings,” a more general habitual time frame.
Example:
• Hver morgen drikker jeg kaffe. (I drink coffee every single morning.)
• Om morgenen drikker jeg kaffe. (Generally/in the mornings I drink coffee.)
vanner is pronounced a like the “a” in “father” [ɑ]
• double nn lengthens the nasal [nː]
• -er is a reduced vowel [ə] plus tapped/soft r
hagen is h is aspirated [h]
• a is long [ɑː]
• g like in “go” [ɡ]
• -en becomes [ən], with a reduced vowel plus n.