Questions & Answers about Jeg reiser til hovedstaden i morgen.
Why is hovedstaden in its definite form instead of just hovedstad?
Norwegian expresses “the” by adding a suffix. hovedstad means “capital city,” and -en is the definite article “the.” So hovedstaden = “the capital city.”
Why do we use til here instead of i or på?
til indicates movement toward a destination: “to” somewhere. You say jeg reiser til Oslo (“I’m traveling to Oslo”). i would mean “in,” and på is used for islands, events or surfaces (“på skolen” = at school, “på ferie” = on holiday), not for “going to” a city.
Why is i morgen written as two words, and can it be spelled imorgen?
i morgen (“tomorrow”) is always two words in Bokmål. imorgen is incorrect. Remember that time expressions with i (today = i dag, yesterday = i går) are separate words.
Where do time adverbials like i morgen usually go in a Norwegian sentence?
Norwegian follows the “verb-second” rule: the finite verb must come second. You can place a time expression either before or after the verb, as long as the verb remains second:
- Jeg reiser i morgen til hovedstaden.
- I morgen reiser jeg til hovedstaden.
- Jeg reiser til hovedstaden i morgen.