Programendringen kommer over sambandsradioen.

to come

Breakdown of Programendringen kommer over sambandsradioen.

• over: over
• sambandsradioen: the two-way radio
• programendringen: the program change

Questions & Answers about Programendringen kommer over sambandsradioen.

Why is programendringen written as one word?

Because Norwegian usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

So programendringen is built from:

• program = program
• endring = change
• -en = the definite ending

The base noun is programendring = program change, and programendringen = the program change.

This is very common in Norwegian. Where English often uses two words, Norwegian often uses one:

• togstasjon = train station
• skolebok = school book / textbook
• programendring = program change

Why does programendringen end in -en?

The ending -en is the suffixed definite article, meaning the.

In Norwegian, instead of putting the in front of many nouns, you usually add the definite ending to the noun itself.

So:

• en programendring = a program change
• programendringen = the program change

The last part of the compound, endring, determines how the whole compound is inflected. Since endring is a noun that can take the definite form -en, the full compound becomes programendringen.

What exactly does kommer mean here? Is it literally ?