Billettskanneren kontrollerer festivalpasset, og vi kontrollerer armbåndet.

Those endings mark the definite form in Norwegian, like the in English.

• billettskanner = ticket scanner

• billettskanneren = the ticket scanner

• festivalpass = festival pass

• festivalpasset = the festival pass

• armbånd = wristband
• armbåndet = the wristband

Norwegian often adds definiteness to the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually attached to the noun as a suffix:

• skanneren = the scanner
• passet = the pass
• armbåndet = the wristband

So you normally do not need a separate word before the noun in a simple sentence like this.

Yes. Kontrollerer is the present tense of å kontrollere.

• å kontrollere = to check / inspect / verify
• kontrollerer = checks / is checking / check

In Norwegian, the present tense often works for both:

• The ticket scanner checks the festival pass
• The ticket scanner is checking the festival pass

The exact English tense depends on context.

Norwegian often repeats the verb when two clauses are joined with og (and), especially when the subjects are different.

So:

• Billettskanneren kontrollerer festivalpasset
• og vi kontrollerer armbåndet

This is fully natural and clear: the scanner checks one thing, and we check another.

You could not normally just say:

• ... og vi armbåndet

because Norwegian needs the verb there.

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

In the second clause:

• vi = subject
• kontrollerer = finite verb
• armbåndet = object

So vi kontrollerer armbåndet is normal main-clause word order.

After og, you usually just start a new coordinated clause with normal word order.

Exactly. Norwegian very often forms compound nouns by writing them as one word.

• billett
  • skanner → billettskanner
• festival
  • pass → festivalpass

Then the definite ending is added to the whole compound:

• billettskanneren
• festivalpasset

This is very common in Norwegian and an important habit to learn.

Because the nouns have different grammatical genders.

• billettskanner is usually a common gender noun

  • indefinite: en billettskanner
  • definite: billettskanneren

• festivalpass is a neuter noun

  • indefinite: et festivalpass
  • definite: festivalpasset

• armbånd is also neuter

  • indefinite: et armbånd
  • definite: armbåndet

So the ending depends on the noun’s gender.

Vi means we and is normally written with a lowercase v unless it begins a sentence.

In this sentence it comes after a comma, so it stays lowercase:

• ..., og vi kontrollerer armbåndet.

Norwegian does not capitalize pronouns like German does.

The comma is there because og joins two full clauses, each with its own subject and verb:

1. Billettskanneren kontrollerer festivalpasset
2. vi kontrollerer armbåndet

In Norwegian, a comma is commonly used before og when it connects two independent clauses like this.

Not always. Even though kontrollere looks like control, in this kind of context it usually means:

• check
• inspect
• verify

So here it is better understood as checking passes and wristbands, not controlling them in the broader English sense of managing or commanding something.

You would remove the definite endings and add en or et where needed:

• En billettskanner kontrollerer et festivalpass, og vi kontrollerer et armbånd.

That means something more like:

• A ticket scanner checks a festival pass, and we check a wristband.

The original sentence with definite forms sounds more specific:

• the ticket scanner
• the festival pass
• the wristband

The word is roughly pronounced like ARM-bond-eh in a simplified English-friendly way, though not exactly.

A few points:

• å is a Norwegian vowel, not pronounced like English a
• it sounds more like the vowel in British English law or more
• armbånd has stress on the first part: ARM-...

So armbåndet is approximately:

• ARM-bon-deh or ARM-bawnd-eh, depending on how roughly you want to imitate it

The exact sound depends on dialect, but the important thing is that å is a distinct vowel sound in Norwegian.