The present perfect tense forms of

regular verbs
Today Gabriele and Yunha have a chat about how Yunha is
getting on in Oslo.

Gabriele is like a big sister to Yunha and asks her if Yunha has
unpacked all her stuff:

-Har du pakket ut alle tingene dine?

Or if Yunha has bought a monthly commuter’s ticket for the metro:

-Har du kjøpt månedskort til T-banen?

When Gabriele asks these questions, then she uses the present
perfect tense.

The present perfect refers to something that happened at an

unspecified time in the past while we are interested in the current
consequences. Or we use the present perfect tense when we describe
a condition that began in the past but is still ongoing.

The present perfect tense form of regular verbs

PRESENT
PRESENT
SUFFIX INFINITIVE PERFECT
TENSE
TENSE

(å) snakke har

et snakker
((to) talk) snakket
 PRESENT
PRESENT
SUFFIX INFINITIVE PERFECT
TENSE
TENSE

(å) jobbe har

jobber
((to) work) jobbet

(å) sykle
har
((to) ride a sykler
syklet
bicycle)

(å) lese
t leser har lest
((to) read)

(å) kjøpe har

kjøper
((to) buy) kjøpt

(å) trene
har
((to) work trener
trent
out)
 PRESENT
PRESENT
SUFFIX INFINITIVE PERFECT
TENSE
TENSE

(å)
har
begynne begynner
begynt
((to) start)

(å)
drømme har
drømmer
((to) drømt
dream)

(å) spille
spiller har spilt
((to) play)

(å) pleie
har
d ((to) pleier
pleid
usually do)

(å) prøve har

prøver
((to) try) prøvd
 PRESENT
PRESENT
SUFFIX INFINITIVE PERFECT
TENSE
TENSE

(å) lage
((to)
lager har lagd
make,
prepare)

(å) tro
har
dd ((to) tror
trodd
believe)

(å) bo har
bor
((to) live) bodd

Regular verbs and their suffixes

Regular verbs are divided into groups according to the suffixes they
have. There are four groups because regular verbs will have the
suffixes -et, -t, -d or -dd.

Many verbs with two different consonants or a double

consonant before -e in the infinitive form, have the suffix -et, like in
“pakket inn”:

-Har du pakket ut alle tingene dine?

Many verbs with a vowel and one consonant in front of -e, will take
the suffix -t, like in “kjøpt”:
-Har du kjøpt månedskort til T-banen?

This also applies to verbs with a double n, m and l in front of -eand

they drop one of the consonants before the suffix -t, like in “drømt”
(dreamt).

Many verbs with vowel and g or vowel and v or with two different
vowels in front of -e will take the suffix -d, like in “prøvd”. And the last
group, regular verbs that generally end in vowels other than -e will
take the suffix -dd in the present perfect, like in ““bodd””.