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Questions & Answers about Vi prater sammen.
What does vi mean?
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
What does prater mean, and what is the base form?
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.
Why is there no separate word for are in Vi prater sammen?