Vekstsesongen er kort.

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Breakdown of Vekstsesongen er kort.

• kort: short
• vekstsesongen: the growing season

Questions & Answers about Vekstsesongen er kort.

Why is vekstsesongen written as one word?

Because Norwegian, like German, very often makes compound nouns by joining words together.

Here:

• vekst = growth
• sesong = season

So vekstsesong literally means growth season, which English expresses as growing season.

Then the definite ending is added to the whole compound:

• vekstsesong = a growing season
• vekstsesongen = the growing season

A useful rule: in Norwegian compounds, the last part is the main noun, and that is the part that gets the definite ending.

What does the ending -en mean in vekstsesongen?

-en is the definite singular ending for many masculine/common-gender nouns in Bokmål.

So:

• en sesong = a season
• sesongen = the season

And with the compound:

• en vekstsesong = a growing season
• vekstsesongen = the growing season

So Norwegian often puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English does.

Why is there no separate word for the?