Hun oppnådde suksess.

she

Breakdown of Hun oppnådde suksess.

• suksessen: the success
• oppnå: to achieve

Questions & Answers about Hun oppnådde suksess.

What does hun mean, and why is it used here?

Hun means she. It is the subject pronoun in the sentence, so it tells you who performed the action.

In Hun oppnådde suksess, hun is the person who achieved success.

What form is oppnådde?

Oppnådde is the past tense of the verb oppnå, which means to achieve, to attain, or to reach.

So:

• å oppnå = to achieve
• oppnår = achieves / is achieving
• oppnådde = achieved
• har oppnådd = has achieved

In this sentence, oppnådde shows that the action happened in the past.

Why is the verb in the second position?

Norwegian is generally a V2 language, which means the finite verb usually comes in the second position in main clauses.

In this sentence:

• Hun = first element
• oppnådde = finite verb, so it comes second
• suksess = object

This is the normal word order for a simple statement in Norwegian.

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