Hun fant gullet.

Hun is the subject form of the pronoun, so it is used for she.

• Hun fant gullet. = She found the gold.
• Jeg så henne. = I saw her.

So in this sentence, hun is the one doing the action, which is why hun is correct.

Fant is the past tense of finne, which means to find.

• infinitive: å finne
• present: finner
• past: fant
• past participle: funnet

So fant means found.

Yes. Finne is an irregular verb.

It does not make the past tense in the regular way. For example, many Norwegian verbs form the past with endings like -et, -te, or -de, but finne changes internally:

• finne
• finner
• fant
• funnet

This is something you simply need to learn as a verb pattern.

Because gullet is the definite form of the noun.

In Norwegian, definiteness is often added as a suffix to the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

• gull = gold
• gullet = the gold

So the ending -et here corresponds to English the.

Because gull is a neuter noun in Norwegian.

For many neuter nouns in Bokmål:

• indefinite singular: et
  • noun
• definite singular: noun + -et

So:

• et gull
• gullet

That said, gull is often used as a material noun, so in many contexts you will just see gull without et. But when you want to say the gold, the definite form gullet is natural.

Usually, gull works like a mass/material noun, much like gold in English.

That means it often refers to the substance in general:

• Dette er gull. = This is gold.

But Norwegian can still put such nouns into a definite form when the context points to some specific gold:

• Hun fant gullet. = She found the gold.

So even though it is not usually thought of as a countable object, the language still allows a definite form when a specific amount or instance is meant.

This is the normal Norwegian main clause word order:

Subject + verb + object

So:

• Hun = subject
• fant = verb
• gullet = object

This is very similar to standard English word order:

• She found the gold.

Yes, but it means something slightly different.

• Hun fant gull = She found gold / some gold
• Hun fant gullet = She found the gold

The version without the ending -et is more indefinite or general. The version with -et refers to specific gold that is already known from the context.

In standard Bokmål, hun is primarily the subject form: she.

The object form is normally henne: her.

• Hun fant gullet. = She found the gold.
• Jeg så henne. = I saw her.

In some dialects or informal speech, you may hear variation, but for learners, it is best to remember:

• hun = she
• henne = her

No. Å is only used with the infinitive, like to in English.

• å finne = to find

But in this sentence, the verb is already conjugated in the past tense:

• fant = found

So Hun fant gullet is correct, and å would be wrong here.