Han ble rasende etter møtet.

Ble is the past tense of bli, which usually means to become.

So in this sentence, han ble rasende means he became furious/angry, not he was furious.

This is a very common pattern in Norwegian:

• bli + adjective = become + adjective
• Han ble trøtt. = He became tired.
• Hun ble glad. = She became happy.

There is an important difference:

• Han ble rasende = He became furious.
  This focuses on a change of state.
• Han var rasende = He was furious.
  This describes his state, without emphasizing the change.

So ble tells you that something happened that caused the anger, and he entered that emotional state.

Rasende is an adjective here. It describes han.

It means something like furious, enraged, or extremely angry. It is stronger than sint, which often just means angry.

So:

• sint = angry
• rasende = furious / enraged

In this case, rasende is simply the normal form of the adjective. Some Norwegian adjectives naturally end in -ende and often do not change much across different uses.

So you just learn rasende as the adjective meaning furious.

You do not need to think of this -e as the same kind of ending as in adjectives like:

• en stor bil
• det store huset

With rasende, the form itself is already rasende.

Etter møtet is a prepositional phrase:

• etter = after
• møtet = the meeting

Together, it means after the meeting.

It tells you when he became furious.

Because møtet is the definite form of the noun.

The noun is:

• et møte = a meeting

The definite form is:

• møtet = the meeting

This is very typical in Norwegian. Instead of using a separate word like the, Norwegian usually adds the definiteness to the end of the noun:

• en bil = a car

• bilen = the car

• et hus = a house

• huset = the house

• et møte = a meeting
• møtet = the meeting

Because Norwegian usually marks definiteness with an ending on the noun itself.

So English says:

• the meeting

But Norwegian often says:

• møtet

The -et ending already contains the idea of the.

You only add a separate determiner like det or den in certain structures, for example with an adjective:

• møtet = the meeting
• det lange møtet = the long meeting

No, this is straightforward main-clause word order:

• Han = subject
• ble = verb
• rasende = adjective/predicative
• etter møtet = prepositional phrase

So the structure is basically:

Subject + verb + complement + time phrase

This is a very common Norwegian pattern.

Yes, sometimes it can suggest both.

Literally, etter møtet means after the meeting, so it clearly gives a time reference. But in real context, it can also imply that the meeting is the reason, or at least connected to why he became furious.

So depending on context, it may mean:

• he became furious when the meeting was over
• he became furious because of what happened in the meeting

If you wanted to make the cause more explicit, Norwegian might say something like:

• på grunn av møtet = because of the meeting

But etter møtet is perfectly natural if the intended meaning is simply after the meeting.

Yes. That would also be natural.

The difference is mainly intensity:

• sint = angry
• rasende = furious / enraged

So Han ble sint etter møtet is milder than Han ble rasende etter møtet.

Then you would usually need a clause, for example:

• etter at møtet var slutt
• etter at møtet var over
• etter at møtet endte

That is because etter møtet is just a noun phrase, while after the meeting ended includes a full idea with its own verb.

A useful contrast is:

• etter møtet = after the meeting
• etter at møtet var over = after the meeting was over

In careful pronunciation, møtet is roughly MØ-teh with the stress on the first syllable.

The final -t in endings like -et is often weak or not strongly pronounced in everyday speech, depending on dialect and speaking style. So learners may hear something that sounds closer to møte with a very light ending.

This is normal, and you do not need to pronounce the final t very strongly to be understood.