Changes to the Ordpar dictionary

What has changed in the dictionary's content, newest first: newly translated articles, our corrections of Bokmålsordboka's text, and each newer copy of Bokmålsordboka's data, the work of Språkrådet and the University of Bergen. With a newer copy, the articles not yet translated follow it at once; the translated ones keep the Norwegian their English was written for until we revise them. Today's totals are on the About page.

2026-11-06

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 6 November 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen), with one new article, vestmark, shown in Norwegian until it is translated.
• Totals: 94,197 articles (+1).

2026-11-05

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 5 November 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen). Totals unchanged.

2026-11-04, second update

• Three articles with no headword are no longer shown. Bokmålsordboka's data has three articles without a headword (an abbreviation of ved, one meaning "much used or well liked", and an abbreviation for "without a year"); Bokmålsordboka's own site shows no page for them either.
• Totals: 94,196 articles (−3).

2026-11-04

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 3 November 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen), with one new article, the fixed expression uff a meg, shown with the translation we had already made.
• Totals: 94,199 articles (+1), 21,874 translated (+1).

2026-11-02

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 2 November 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen). Totals unchanged.

2026-10-31, second update

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 31 October 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen). Totals unchanged.

2026-10-31

• Bokmålsordboka's "Se:" lines restored on fixed expressions. The line that names the words a fixed expression is built from (aksle seg: "Se: aksle") had been left out of our copy; it is now kept, in Bokmålsordboka's own words, and shown on 8,909 fixed expressions' own pages, translated or not.
• Totals unchanged.

2026-10-30, second update

• Nine typos corrected in the lines over compound lists, in høst, klinikk, pølse, reim, sko, skriv, slave, tun and verk: Bokmålsordboka's "som etterldd i ord som", "som etterledd ord som" and the like now read som etterledd i ord som, each with our note on the correction.
• Totals: our corrections of typos, punctuation and formatting 107 in 104 articles (was 98 in 96); the rest unchanged.

2026-10-30

• ha's English equivalents: "to keep" removed from the short summary at the top, which now reads "to have". The article translates ha as "keep" only once, so it is not one of the word's main equivalents.
• Totals unchanged.

2026-10-29

• A typo corrected in ungdomstid: Bokmålsordboka's example read "ha gode minner fra ungsomstiden"; it now reads ha gode minner fra ungdomstiden, with our note on the correction.
• Bokmålsordboka's data of 29 October 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen).
• Totals: our corrections of typos, punctuation and formatting 98 in 96 articles (was 97 in 95); the rest unchanged.

2026-10-28

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 28 October 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen). It corrects a typo we had corrected ourselves, in the example kritikken skyter over mål under skyte over mål (also shown in mål I), so those two articles no longer carry our note on a correction.
• Totals: our corrections of typos, punctuation and formatting 97 in 95 articles (was 99 in 97); the rest unchanged.

2026-10-27

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 27 October 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen), with one new article, korpus III, shown in Norwegian.
• Totals: 94,198 articles (+1).

2026-10-26

• Bokmålsordboka's data of 26 October 2026 (Språkrådet and the University of Bergen), which changed nothing in the articles shown here. Totals unchanged.

2026-10-25

• English revised in 57 articles: the English of 55 etymologies reworded (for example, Norwegian "egentlig" there now given as "properly" rather than "literally"), and the English definitions of two set phrases, på liv og død and bli borte.
• Totals unchanged.

2026-10-23 — the starting point

The totals when this list began, with Bokmålsordboka's data of 25 September 2026. No changes are listed: later entries count from here.

• Articles: 94,197, of which 21,873 have been translated into English (23.2 %): 10,132 complete, with the short summary at the top, and 11,741 with every definition and example in English, their summary still to come.
• Share of the text translated: 36.3 % of the dictionary's running words (495,400 of 1,365,856), across its definitions, examples and etymologies.
• Our corrections of Bokmålsordboka's text: 190 in 185 articles (82 cross-references in 80 articles; 99 typos, punctuation and formatting errors in 97; the more common spelling of the headword put first in 4; 5 other corrections in 5). Each corrected article says so at its foot.
• Example sentences of our own, added where a sense had no example: 450 in 271 articles, each marked with a small raised "+".