Vi prater sammen.

Vi means we.

It is the subject pronoun in the sentence, the person doing the action:

• Vi prater sammen. = We are talking together.

Other related pronouns are:

• jeg = I
• du = you
• han = he
• hun = she
• dere = you (plural)
• de = they

Prater is the present tense of the verb å prate, which means to talk.

So:

• å prate = to talk
• prater = talk / am talking / are talking / is talking, depending on the subject

Examples:

• Jeg prater. = I am talking.
• Vi prater. = We are talking.
• De prater. = They are talking.

In Norwegian, the verb form usually stays the same for all persons in the present tense.

Because Norwegian often uses the simple present tense where English might use either simple present or present continuous.

So Vi prater sammen can mean:

• We talk together
• We are talking together

Norwegian does not normally need a separate helper verb like are for this meaning.

Compare:

• English: We are talking
• Norwegian: Vi prater

This is very normal in Norwegian.

Sammen means together.

In this sentence, it shows that the talking is happening with each other or as a group:

• Vi prater sammen. = We talk together / We are talking with each other.

You will also see sammen in other common expressions:

• Vi er sammen. = We are together.
• La oss gjøre det sammen. = Let’s do it together.

Yes, in many situations they mean almost the same thing.

• å prate = to talk
• å snakke = to speak / to talk

So both of these are natural:

• Vi prater sammen
• Vi snakker sammen

A useful rough guide:

• prate can feel a little more informal, like chat or talk
• snakke is very common and often a bit more neutral

But in everyday Norwegian, the difference is often small.

Because many Norwegian verbs in the present tense take -er.

For the verb å prate:

• infinitive: å prate
• present tense: prater

This is a very common pattern in Bokmål:

• å snakke → snakker
• å jobbe → jobber
• å lære → lærer

So prater is just the normal present-tense form.

Usually, no. That is one thing many English speakers find easier in Norwegian.

With å prate, the present tense is the same for all subjects:

• jeg prater
• du prater
• han prater
• vi prater
• dere prater
• de prater

Unlike English, Norwegian does not normally change the present-tense verb to match the subject.

This sentence is Bokmål.

• Vi prater sammen. is standard Bokmål.
• In Nynorsk, you might more often see something like Vi pratar saman.

So if you are learning Bokmål, Vi prater sammen fits that variety.

Yes, but Norwegian has rules about verb placement.

The normal word order here is:

• Vi prater sammen.

If you move something else to the front, the verb usually comes second:

• Nå prater vi sammen. = Now we are talking together.
• Sammen prater vi sjelden. = Together, we rarely talk.

This is part of the common Norwegian V2 word order rule: the finite verb usually comes in the second position in main clauses.

A simple learner-friendly approximation is:

vee PRAH-ter SAHM-men

A few notes:

• Vi sounds roughly like vee
• prater has stress on the first syllable: PRA-ter
• sammen has stress on the first syllable: SAHM-men

The exact pronunciation can vary a bit by dialect, but this approximation is good enough to get started.

Yes, depending on context, prater can sometimes feel a bit like chatting.

So Vi prater sammen could suggest:

• we are talking
• we are chatting
• we are having a conversation

The exact English translation depends on tone and situation, but the basic idea is that we are speaking with each other.