Synes eller Tror

The way one use Tror and Synes in a sentense. Following can summarise the use of these two words.

SYNES	TROR
English : Think/Find	English : Believe
Can be used when ·         You have experience with the things you are talking about (noe man har erfart)/(Personglig erfaring) ·         Your personal openion (Sin personlig meaning om hva andre skal prove) You want to express your own openion	Can be used when ·         You do not have experience with the things you are talking about(man ikke vet) ·         When you are talking about things that are going to happen in future. (Framtida) ·         When you talk about statistics, things you can control. ·         When the answer to a question is always  YES and NO

Lets take some examples.

1. __________ du at det blir regn i morgen ? => Ans: tror, Reason: Framtida. There are only two possibilitites, either it will rain or it won't rain.
Jeg tror det blir snø i morgen.
Jeg tror det blir regn.

2. Before you saw a film : Jeg tror filmen er bra. => because you have not seen the film, you have no experience with film
After you saw a film : Jeg synes ikke den var så bra. => now you have seen the film, so you have now experience about film

You can find more examples and explanations in

http://grammatikk.com/pdf/TroSynes.pdf
http://nyinorge.portfolio.no/read/aa506391-3658-4ada-822e-1f6e059a859d
 http://123norsk.com/Hot%20potatoes/synestro.htm
http://praktisknorsk2.cappelendamm.no/c342561/flashoppgavesamling/vis.html?tid=343360&strukt_tid=342561
http://www.fjern-uv.dk/leks/tror.htm
https://www.ntnu.edu/now2/8.1/synes-tro
http://minvei.no/read/b65754c3-3809-4669-8ee4-c3ef03776415