Learn About Norwegian Nouns and Articles – II

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In the last post, you began to learn about Norwegian Nouns and Articles. As promised, I am going to help you understand more about the deadly combination of Nouns and Articles.

Recall that entall means singular and flertall means plural. Also ubestemt means indefinite and bestemt means definite.

 Entall Ubestemt Substantive (Singular Indefinite Noun)

We have already seen this form of the noun in

  1. Learn About Nouns in Norwegian Part 1
  2. Learn About Nouns in Norwegian Part 2
  3. Learn About Nouns in Norwegian Part 3
Note how the article in Norwegian maps to the article in English. Of course, as you must recall, the article in Norwegian is based on the gender, Hankjønn(en), Hunkjønn(ei) and Intetkjønn(et).
Norwegian English
 en gutt		 a boy
 ei dør		 a door
 et vindu		 a window

 

 Entall Bestemt Substantive (Singular Definite Noun)

Note how the article in Norwegian maps to the article in English. One of the peculiar aspects of the Norwegian noun is that the article is attached to the end of the definite form. So for example, “en gutt“ (indefinite) becomes “gutten“ (definite).

Norwegian English
 gutten		 the boy
 døra		 the door
 vinduet		 the window

 

 Flertall Ubestemt Substantive (Plural Indefinite Noun)

As you can see below, the “er” in the Norwegian plural is similar to the “s” that we use when creating a plural in English.

Norwegian English
 flere gutter		 several boys
 flere dører		 several doors
 flere vinduer		 several windows

 

 Flertall Bestemt Substantive (Plural Definite Noun)

As you can see below, the “ene” in the Norwegian plural is similar to the “s” that we use when creating a plural in English. Also recall that since this is a definite form, the article is attached to the end of the noun. For example, “guttene” specifies “the boys“.

Norwegian English
 guttene		 the boys
 dørene		 the doors
 vinduene		 the windows

 

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