Etter suppen er jeg mett, men hun er fortsatt sulten.

Because you’re referring to a specific course/event: the soup that was just served. Norwegian typically uses the definite form for such “time anchors.”

• Natural: Etter suppen/suppa … (“After the soup course …”)
• Unnatural: Etter suppe … (sounds off) Alternatives:
• Etter at vi spiste suppe … (“after we ate soup”)
• Etter å ha spist suppe … (“after having eaten soup”) Note: With meal names used generically, both definite and indefinite occur with a nuance:
• etter middag (after dinner, in general)
• etter middagen (after that specific dinner)

In Bokmål, many nouns can be masculine or feminine. Suppe can be:

• Indefinite singular: en suppe (masc) / ei suppe (fem)
• Definite singular: suppen (masc) / suppa (fem)
• Indefinite plural: supper
• Definite plural: suppene Both suppen and suppa are correct in Bokmål; suppa is common in speech, suppen looks a bit more formal. (In Nynorsk, it’s feminine: suppe – suppa.)

Norwegian main clauses follow the V2 rule: the finite verb must be in second position. When you front an element like Etter suppen, the verb comes next:

• Correct: Etter suppen er jeg mett.
• Wrong: Etter suppen jeg er mett. More examples:
• I dag er jeg trøtt.
• I går var hun sulten.

Predicatively (after “to be”), there’s no gender change in the singular, but the plural takes -e:

• Singular: jeg er mett, hun er sulten
• Plural: vi er mette, de er sultne Attributively (before a noun):
• mett: en mett mann, ei mett jente, et mett barn, mette barn
• sulten: en sulten mann, ei sulten jente, et sultent barn, sultne barn

No. Jeg er full means “I’m drunk.” Use:

• Jeg er mett. (I’m full)
• Polite when refusing more food: Nei takk, jeg er forsynt. Intensifier:
• Jeg er stappmett. (“stuffed”)

Yes:

• fortsatt and fremdeles both mean “still”: Hun er fortsatt/fremdeles sulten.
• ennå can also mean “still/yet” in time expressions (a bit formal/literary): Hun er ennå sulten.
• In the negative, use ikke … lenger/mer: Hun er ikke sulten lenger. Avoid using stadig as a direct “still”; it usually means “continually/frequently” (different nuance). Enda is mainly “even” (comparative), not standard for “still.”

In a main clause, place it after the finite verb:

• Neutral: Hun er fortsatt sulten.
• End placement is possible but marked/emphatic: Hun er sulten fortsatt.
• Don’t say: Hun fortsatt er sulten in a main clause (violates V2). In a subordinate clause, you can have: … fordi hun fortsatt er sulten.

Hun is the subject form; henne is the object form.

• Subject: Hun er sulten. (“She is hungry.”)
• Object: Jeg ser henne. (“I see her.”) Possessive: hennes (“her/hers”): maten hennes There’s also a gender-neutral pronoun hen.

Yes, but they’re structured differently:

• Etterpå (adverb, no object): Etterpå er jeg mett.
• Etter det (preposition + pronoun): Etter det er jeg mett.
• Etter needs an object if you specify what comes after: Etter suppen … (not “etterpå suppe”)

Approximate guides (varies by dialect):

• jeg ≈ “yai/yei”
• hun ≈ “hyoon” (u like German “ü”)
• sulten ≈ “SUL-ten” (short u/ʉ)
• er ≈ “ehr”
• mett ≈ “met”
• men ≈ “men”
• fortsatt ≈ “FORT-satt” (in many dialects the r+t merge to a single retroflex t)

No. men means “but.” The plural of “mann” is menn (with double n). So:

• men = but
• menn = men (adult males)