User Guide/Brukerveiledning: Bokmålsordboka

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Her er linken til Bokmålsordboka

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This is not an English-Norwegian/Norwegian-English dictionary. In other words, you have to know the word you want to look up in Norwegian. For translating English words (or words in your native language) into Norwegian, you can use sites like TriTrans (English, Spanish, Norwegian) and Google Translate.

This dictionary is useful for a lot of things. In addition to giving definitions of words, it will also give you information on what word class they belong to, what grammatical gender a word is (if any), and how to conjugate adjectives, nouns and verbs. (Which is why it can be useful to learners who are not advanced in Norwegian yet. Despite not being able to understand the actual definitions and example sentences given, they can, with the help of this guide, look up word classes, genders and conjugations.)


Looking up words


Start by typing a word into the search field. For looking up a bokmål (standard Norwegian) word, click the "bokmål" button; click the "nynorsk" button if you want to look up a nynorsk (New Norwegian) word. If you want to look up a word in both bokmål and nynorsk (or are unsure if the word you have written is bokmål or nynorsk), click the "begge" button. (When you click this button, it will show you the bokmål form and definition(s) of the word on the left side of the page, and the nynorsk equivalent on the right. Yes, you can use this dictionary if you want to know how a bokmål word is written in nynorsk, and vice versa! Practical, right?)

Advanced search
You can also do an advanced search, by clicking the "avanset søk" (advanced search) link located next to the search buttons.

You will then be given some options to choose from under the search field.

• bøyningsformer = conjugation forms/patterns
• fritekst = (free) text
• oppslagsord = entries
• uten/utan aksent = without accent
• med aksent = with accent
• norsk alfabet = Norwegian alphabet
• ae, oe, aa for æ, ø og å = ae, oe, aa for(/as/instead of) æ, ø and å
• XML-entitet for æ, ø og å = XML entity for(/as/instead of) æ, ø and å

You can select one option/filtering on each row (at the same time). After you've selected the option(s) you want, hit one of the search buttons.

[Raufoss]

Start by typing a word into the search field. For looking up a bokmål (standard Norwegian) word, click the "bokmål" button; click the "nynorsk" button if you want to look up a nynorsk (New Norwegian) word. If you want to look up a word in both bokmål and nynorsk (or are unsure if the word you have written is bokmål or nynorsk), click the "begge" button. (When you click this button, it will show you the bokmål form and definition(s) of the word on the left side of the page, and the nynorsk equivalent on the right. Yes, you can use this dictionary if you want to know how a bokmål word is written in nynorsk, and vice versa! Practical, right?)

Om Nynorsk-/Bokmålsordboka:

Det er diverre ikkje mogeleg (lenger?) å finna ordet i det andre skriftspråket på denne måten. Når ein leitar etter "mogelegheit" til dømes, får ein berre nynorskresultatet og ikkje bokmålsordet "mulighet".

Derimot er wildcard-søk veldig nyttig. Ein kann nytta ? til å finna alle dei ordi som inneheld éitt teikn i staden for spyrjeteiknet (far, fòr, fôr osv. når ein leiter etter f?r), og * til å finna alle dei ordi som inneheld null eller fleire teikn i staden for asterisken. Det hjelper mykje når ein ikkje hugsar nøyaktig korleis eit ord vert stava.

About the Nynorsk-/Bokmålsordboka:

It is unluckily not possible (any longer?) to find the word in the other written language in this way. When one searches for "mogelegheit", for example, you just get the Nynorsk result and not the Bokmål word "mulighet".

However, the wildcard search is very useful. You can use ? to find all the words which contain one character instead of the question mark (far, fòr, fôr etc. if you search for f?r) ., and * to find all the words which contain zero or more characters instead of the asterisk. This helps a lot when one doesn't remember the exact spelling of a word.

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