Lagkameraten husker svaret.

Because Norwegian very often forms compound nouns as a single word.

lagkamerat = lag + kamerat

• lag = team
• kamerat = friend / mate / companion

So lagkamerat means teammate. This is very normal in Norwegian: where English may use two words, Norwegian often uses one.

The -en is the definite ending, meaning the.

So:

• en lagkamerat = a teammate
• lagkameraten = the teammate

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word in front.

Because in Norwegian, the noun itself often carries the meaning of the through a suffix.

So English says:

• the teammate

But Norwegian says:

• lagkameraten

The the idea is built into the noun with -en.

That is because svar is a neuter noun.

In Bokmål, the main pattern is:

• common gender noun: definite singular -en
• neuter noun: definite singular -et

So:

• et svar = an answer
• svaret = the answer

By contrast:

• en lagkamerat = a teammate
• lagkameraten = the teammate

husker is the present tense of the verb å huske, which means to remember.

So:

• å huske = to remember
• husker = remember / remembers / am remembering / is remembering, depending on context

In this sentence, husker means remembers.

A useful point: Norwegian verbs do not change according to the subject the way English verbs do.

For example:

• jeg husker = I remember
• du husker = you remember
• han husker = he remembers
• vi husker = we remember

The verb stays husker.

Yes. This is the basic Norwegian sentence pattern:

Subject + Verb + Object

So in:

Lagkameraten husker svaret.

• Lagkameraten = subject
• husker = verb
• svaret = object

This is the same basic order English uses in a simple statement: The teammate remembers the answer.

• lagkamerat is a common gender noun
• svar is a neuter noun

That is why they behave differently in the definite form:

• lagkamerat → lagkameraten
• svar → svaret

This is an important pattern to learn, because noun gender affects articles and endings.

It would be:

En lagkamerat husker et svar.

But this sounds less natural in many contexts, because remembering an answer is usually more specific, so the definite form svaret often makes more sense.

Still, grammatically:

• en lagkamerat = a teammate
• et svar = an answer

So the original sentence uses definite nouns:

• lagkameraten = the teammate
• svaret = the answer

Yes, in many contexts it can.

Although kamerat historically feels somewhat masculine to some speakers, lagkamerat is often used generally for teammate. In modern usage, context matters, and some speakers may also choose more gender-neutral wording depending on situation.

For a learner, the main thing to know is that lagkamerat commonly means teammate.

A rough guide for an English speaker is:

LAHG-kah-meh-RAH-ten HUS-ker SVAH-ret

A few helpful notes:

• lag has a broad a sound
• kameraten has stress mainly on ra
• husker has a short u, not like English you
• svar begins with sv-, which may feel unusual at first for English speakers

Pronunciation varies somewhat by dialect, but this rough guide is a useful starting point.

Yes, in a broad sense.

Norwegian present tense husker can often cover what English expresses as either:

• remembers
• is remembering

In practice, with huske, English usually translates it as remembers unless the context strongly suggests an ongoing process.

So the most natural translation is:

The teammate remembers the answer.