{"id":172,"date":"2010-04-06T13:08:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/?p=172"},"modified":"2010-04-06T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:13:10","slug":"think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/2010\/04\/think\/","title":{"rendered":"Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/think\">english dictionary<\/a> says that <strong>think<\/strong> means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<strong>transitive verb<\/strong> thought, thinking think\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2\u00c2\u00b7ing<br \/>\nto form or have in the mind; conceive thinking good thoughts<br \/>\nto hold in one&#8217;s opinion; judge; consider many think her charming<br \/>\nto believe; surmise; expect they think they can come<br \/>\nto determine, resolve, work out, etc. by reasoning think what your next move should be<br \/>\nNOW RARE to purpose; intend thinking to do right<br \/>\nto bring to mind; form an idea of think what the future holds<br \/>\nto recall; recollect think what joy was ours<br \/>\nto have the mind turned steadily toward; have constantly in mind think success<br \/>\nEtymology: < ME thenchen, to think, confused with thinchen, to seem < OE thencan < PGmc *thankjan, to think: for IE base see thank\n<strong>intransitive verb<\/strong><br \/>\nto use the mind for arriving at conclusions, making decisions, drawing inferences, etc.; reflect; reason learn to think<br \/>\nto have an opinion, belief, expectation, etc. I just think so<br \/>\nto weigh something mentally; reflect think before you act<br \/>\nto call to mind; recall; remember: with of or about<br \/>\nto have an opinion, judgment, etc.: with of or about<br \/>\nto allow oneself to consider: with of or about<br \/>\nto have regard for; consider the welfare of: with of or about<br \/>\nto discover or invent; conceive (of)\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which is an awful lot for one word. <\/p>\n<p>In Norwegian there are 3 words I have learnt for for think:<\/p>\n<ul>\n&#8211; synes<br \/>\n&#8211; tror<br \/>\n&#8211; tenke\n<\/ul>\n<p>My teacher says that even at the stage of taking the <a href=\"http:\/\/norwegianlanguage.info\/resource\/links\/bergenstest.html\">Bergen test<\/a> some people stumble on when to use these words. So its important to get them straight.<\/p>\n<p>Bearing in mind that I am still a student myself, these words mean:<\/p>\n<h2> Synes <\/h2>\n<p>This means think as in to have a personal opinion about something, as in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\tI think the Mona Lisa is overrated.<br \/>\n\tI think this is the best steak I have ever eaten.<br \/>\n\tI think she looks Scandinavian.\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are all personal opinions and no one can refute what you think as it\u00c2\u00b4s what you think. They can respond with what they think, as they may love the Mona Lisa ie they have a different personal opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Examples in norwegian:<\/p>\n<ul>\n\tJeg syns et bilde er d\u00c3\u00a5rlig.<br \/>\n\tI Storbritannia synes de maten fra det asiatiske landet er s\u00c3\u00a5 god at indisk curry er adoptert som den uoffisielle nasjonalretten!<br \/>\n\tHvilket land synes du lager best talenter i fotballen?\n<\/ul>\n<p>So if its not a fact or factual but is your opinion you can use <strong>synes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Tror <\/h2>\n<p>Tror means think as when you are unsure of something but you think it will turn out true. It is sometimes shown in dictionaries as believe to indicate this. Examples of the use of think this way:<\/p>\n<ul>\nI think it is going to rain tomorrow.<br \/>\nI think she will come in the morning.<br \/>\nDo you think the All Blacks will in the Web Ellis Cup next time?\n<\/ul>\n<p>You cannot use this to say \u00c2\u00b4<em>I think it rained here yesterday<\/em>\u00c2\u00b4 unless you were not here or not aware of the weather for some reason or other. I am presuming you could use tror if you had been in a coma woke up and thought the grass was greener so it must have rained or something. But you can\u00c2\u00b4t use it when something is a fact and you know.<\/p>\n<p>Examples in norwegian:<\/p>\n<ul>\n Flertallet av nordmenn tror v\u00c3\u00a6ret vil bli mer ekstremt fremover.<br \/>\nDe tror Gud kommer fra Amerika.<br \/>\nDere fotballfolk er s\u00c3\u00a5 selvgode at dere tror fotball er alt her i livet, og at ALLE m\u00c3\u00a5 v\u00c3\u00a6re interessert i det.\n<\/ul>\n<p>So you use <strong>tror<\/strong> when you believe or make and educated guess about something.<\/p>\n<h2>Tenke <\/h2>\n<p>Tenke is when you are thinking to yourself in your head (pondering) or when you intend to do something. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<em>Why won\u00c2\u00b4t you answer me?<\/em> I am just thinking it over first.<br \/>\nI think a lot about world pollution, and it worries me.<\/p>\n<p>I am thinking of going to university next year.<br \/>\nI think I will fix the car tomorrow.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Examples in norwegian:<\/p>\n<ul>\nSkaff deg informasjon, innsyn og innsikt til \u00c3\u00a5 tenke selv!<br \/>\nVi m\u00c3\u00a5 tenke positive tanker om fremtiden.<br \/>\nDet du tenker p\u00c3\u00a5, blir virkelighet.<\/p>\n<p>Jeg kan tenke meg \u00c3\u00a5 undervise i spansk.<br \/>\nVi tenker 65.000 tanker om dagen.\n<\/ul>\n<p>So <strong>tenke<\/strong> is more about what is going on in your head, to me.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion <\/h3>\n<p>So there we have it. Three words that in english you can just say think for but in norwegian are more specific. Of course there are specific words in english too, just important to get these straight in norwegian I am told.<\/p>\n<p>My advice is to now go talk to your teacher, or a norwegian and try out some examples of your own and make sure you have the distinctions right and I have not mislead you, remember, I am still learning too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An english dictionary says that think means: transitive verb thought, thinking think\u00e2\u20ac\u00b2\u00c2\u00b7ing to form or have in the mind; conceive thinking good thoughts to hold in one&#8217;s opinion; judge; consider many think her charming to believe; surmise; expect they think they can come to determine, resolve, work out, etc. by reasoning think what your next &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/2010\/04\/think\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Think&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[23,22,25,26,24],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amature-norwegian-lessons","category-norwegian-related-words","tag-family-of-words","tag-norwegian","tag-synes","tag-tenke","tag-tror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7q5gi-think","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":285,"url":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/2010\/05\/alltid-og-aldri\/","url_meta":{"origin":172,"position":0},"title":"Alltid og Aldri","author":"Michelle","date":"14 May 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"When I first came across these two words (Alltid and Aldri) I despaired to my boyfriend, \"Why do two words that mean such different things sound so similar?\" He simply gave me some advice on how to remember to spell them which I will go into later in the post.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Amature Norwegian Lessons&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Amature Norwegian Lessons","link":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/category\/amature-norwegian-lessons\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"a sad girl and a happy girl ","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/9999-12-312-500x375.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1,"url":"https:\/\/weblog.bergersen.net\/michelle\/2009\/07\/hello-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":172,"position":1},"title":"Welcome to my blog","author":"Michelle","date":"2 July 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The picture is Jarle and me on a little boat trip, in New Zealand, on a brillant holiday. 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