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Norwegian numbers.
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In Norwegian · Bokmål
01 / The building blocks
Start with zero to twenty.
These are the words you will keep coming back to. After twenty, you can start putting the pieces together.
| Number | Bokmål |
|---|---|
| 0 | null |
| 1 | en / ei / ett |
| 2 | to |
| 3 | tre |
| 4 | fire |
| 5 | fem |
| 6 | seks |
| 7 | sju |
| 8 | åtte |
| 9 | ni |
| 10 | ti |
| Number | Bokmål |
|---|---|
| 11 | elleve |
| 12 | tolv |
| 13 | tretten |
| 14 | fjorten |
| 15 | femten |
| 16 | seksten |
| 17 | sytten |
| 18 | atten |
| 19 | nitten |
| 20 | tjue |
02 / Put the pieces together
Small patterns. Bigger numbers.
Twenty + three = one word.
23 → tjuetre
Put the tens first, then the ones, with no space or “and”. The same pattern gives you førtiseks (46) and nittini (99).
A little “and” goes a long way.
325 → tre hundre og tjuefem
Use og before a final part below one hundred: ett hundre og fem (105), or to tusen og ti (2 010).
| Number | Bokmål | Example |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | tjue | 21 · tjueen |
| 30 | tretti | 32 · trettito |
| 40 | førti | 43 · førtitre |
| 50 | femti | 54 · femtifire |
| 60 | seksti | 65 · sekstifem |
| 70 | sytti | 76 · syttiseks |
| 80 | åtti | 87 · åttisju |
| 90 | nitti | 98 · nittiåtte |
| 100 | ett hundre | 200 · to hundre |
| 1 000 | ett tusen | 3 000 · tre tusen |
| 1 000 000 | en million | 2 000 000 · to millioner |
Heard a different version? Syv for 7 and tyve for 20 are also used. This tool sticks to sju, tjue and the modern tens-first order so you can learn one consistent pattern.
03 / Numbers in real life
From the classroom to the café.
First, second, third…
17. mai → syttende mai
An ordinal tells you the position, not the quantity. Add a dot after the digit: 1. is første, 2. is andre, 3. is tredje. Month names start with a lowercase letter.
Two ways to think about a year.
1998 → nitten nittiåtte
Older years are often read in two parts. For 2026, to tusen og tjueseks works. Spaces here show the spoken parts; when spelling a year out in writing, join it: nittennittiåtte.
A comma, not a decimal point.
49,50 kr
The full reading is førtini kroner og femti øre. In a shop you may simply hear førtini femti. Group thousands with spaces: 1 250,50 kr.
Slow and clear is a good start.
12 → en · to
Read one digit at a time when sharing a number. Keep any zeros: null. Once you are comfortable, practise pairs, too: 12 can be read as tolv.
| Position | Bokmål | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | første | first |
| 2. | andre | second |
| 3. | tredje | third |
| 4. | fjerde | fourth |
| 5. | femte | fifth |
| 6. | sjette | sixth |
| 7. | sjuende / syvende | seventh |
| 8. | åttende | eighth |
| 9. | niende | ninth |
| 10. | tiende | tenth |
| 20. | tjuende | twentieth |
| 21. | tjueførste | twenty-first |
| 30. | trettiende | thirtieth |
This guide uses Bokmål, not Nynorsk. The converter offers a consistent reading, not every regional or spoken alternative. Numbers are converted in your browser and are not sent to a server.
Further reading: NTNU LearnNoW on counting numbers and ordinals and dates.