#39 Tid / gang / time - What do they mean? And how are they used? [vokabular]

The Trap: “Team” Is Not Time

How do you translate the word time into Norwegian? If you speak French or any other Latin language, it might help you to translate to that language. I'm not sure about all Latin languages, but at least French have two different words for the word time, just like Norwegian does. So think about that. The first thing you have to remember is that the word time is not the word team in Norwegian. Forget about that word. The word team has something to do with time, but it does not mean time. So what does team mean? Just to clear that off and put it away and let's forget about it afterwards, okay?

What “Time” Means: Teed vs Gung

Tima means hour. And team. You know, I'm not sure if it's called hourglass. So normally it's like two minutes or so that will go by during the time for the sand to go through. We call that teamgloss. Et teamegloss. So hourglass, literally. Or an team plan is a schedule normally used for the schedule you have as a kid, because or the different classes last not one hour, they last normally 45 minutes. So we have two different uh two kinds of hours. We have clocke team, which is 60 minutes, the clock clock hour, clock tima, and then we have school team, school hour, which means forty-five minutes. So the word team can also mean a class or a lesson because it lasts well not 60 minutes but forty-five minutes in general. So it can mean class and it can also mean appointment. So if you go to the doctor, you can ask for a team. Can ya foen team me or hus legen? Can I have and what are you actually asking is an

Measuring Time With Tid

hour? Can I have an appointment with the doctor? So whenever you go to the doctor, the dentist, or you book an appointment, basically, in their schedule. Then it's called an team. It's not any kind of appointment, but the kind of appointment where you have a professional and a client, and you book an appointment in their calendar. That's entime. Even though you might not get an hour, and maybe it's just 20 minutes or 15, but you still call it antima. You could also say an avtal, an appointment. So that's team. Noshtima, right? And nosktima, a Norwegian lesson. And legitima, a doctor's appointment. But it does not mean what you think it means. So whenever you want to say time, just put that word aside and say no. It's not that word. Okay, so we have two words that can mean time, English word time, and that is teed. The D can be pronounced or it can be silent. People who use it in feminine form tend to not pronounce the D, and if you use it in a masculine form, they tend to pronounce it. So if I say the time, I can either say tia or feminine or tean masculine. So that's one. And the other one is gung. Gung. Now before we look at these two words, teed and gung, let's look at what time actually is. It's very abstract. We have different ways of measuring time. You can measure it in minutes, seconds, in hours, months, weeks, years, etc. etc. It can also feel long even though it's short, and feel short even though it's long. So it's also the feeling of time can vary from person to person, from moment to moment. So we can look at it as something that we can measure when we measure it. We look at the length of it. How long is it? Is it a lot? Is it a little? Is it one minute or is it a day? Then the word we use is teed. We say tiden gor or tia gor. Time goes by or literally time goes. The time goes. Right? So that shows that it's something that it's always ticking, it's always moving, it's always getting longer. Yah me tid I have a lot of time. We normally don't say viharmi, we say Yahutid.

Counting Repetitions With Gang

Which by the way is something that everybody misunderstands. It doesn't mean I have a good time, it means I have a lot of time. Yahutied I have plenty of time. Yahorlitid doesn't mean I have a bad time, it means I have little time. I'm in a hurry. Right? We're talking about how much. I might ask Vulang Tidarda how long time does it take. Okay vood mutid hardu how much time do you have? Here let ya all the time the whole time. I'm talking about still caught, I'm talking about it as a something that I measure how much of this thing that we're trying to quantify. When if somebody has a has a difficult period in their life, they've lost someone maybe. People might say tatia till let time help you or take time as a help, right? Tia legir alle sword time heals all wounds. Right? You just need the right amount of it as long as it's long enough. So we're talking about how long time with the right amount of time. And we're not counting the number of times. We're looking at time as something that you know it never we don't know when it started and we don't know when it will end, but we try to like cut out pieces of it and measure that amount of time. How long is that amount of time? How long is the time you need to heal? How long does it take to read a book? How long did you stay outside in the cold weather, right? You're measuring a certain amount of time. Okay, I think I've repeated myself many times now, but I just wanted to I want it to enter your head because it's it's difficult to see something that you've you've considered as one thing, to try to see it as two different, it's not two different things, it's just two different ways to look at it, right? So one thing, how one way you can look at time is something that you measure, you see how big or small it is, even though it's not something physical that you can measure. And then we have the other concept of time that you can count. So it's more like how many so if I say like how many times have you been there? Wurmonge. I'm not measuring the length of the time here. Imagine I'm asking you like how many times have you been to Norway? Vudumange Gangir, Harduvert in Norige. Maybe let's say you've been there three times. One time was one week, the other time was one day, and the third time was three years, right? We are not interested in the length of the time. It's not the length part, it's not the teed that we're interested in. We're not measure we're interested in the repetition of an action, not how long each action lasted, but how many repetitions you had. Then it's gung. Okay? Two people might have the same answer, but the amount of time Vulang T is different in total. So very different way of looking at it. You could say ah ya hartad nuan gungir. I have been there sometimes a couple of times Nuengangir Storia Pushi

Memory Hooks And Practice Sentences

Sometimes I go skiing. I can count it. It's something that happens from time to time. And if I want to I can count how many. I'm not focusing on how long was it one hour or two. That's not the point. The point is that I go there regularly, and if you want I can count how many it was. And when you tell a fairy tale, you know, in English you start with once upon a time, blah blah blah. In Norwegian you start with De Vaden Gong. There was a time. Not focusing on how long that time was, just it was. It happened, and it was once. When we say that something repeats itself over and over again, we can say gung pu gung time after time. Right? Then we're focusing on the amount of times it happens. Many times. That's our focus, not how long each time lasts. I think you got it now. I hope you got it. Any way that can help you remember this is helpful. Like for instance, teed might uh be similar to tide, the rise, and the lowering of the water, right? That's something that never ends, it just goes on and on. And then gong. Well, not a very nice way to remember it, but looks very similar to gang and how many gangs are there in the world. Too many, too many gangs. Uh I know that's just stupid, but it doesn't matter how you remember it, just as long as it it's a way that will make you associate it with the true meaning easily. Okay, so so go ahead and just find a way to remember what each of them means or just remember a sentence with it in Yai Hardinorge Firi Gangid I've been to Norway four times Yai Bruki Long Tid Pobada I spend a lot of time in the bathroom for instance So two sentences for you as always and then I will leave you alone First one how do you say I spend a lot of time on working out Yai Brukir Mia Blank I spend a lot of time on working out Yai Brukir Mia blank what about this one? How would you translate this one? Every time I work out one hour there are two blanks in this sentence Ver blank Trianeria E blank every time I work out one hour Ver blank triener So now I have used all the three words Tid gung and team Lickitil Good luck and as always if you have any comments, questions, feedback, please get in touch Ha and Fiendug Vures.