Questions & Answers about Bulken er liten.
Because -en is the definite singular ending for many masculine nouns in Norwegian. So bulken means the ... rather than just a/an ....
This is one of the big differences from English: Norwegian often puts the definite article onto the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like the.
- indefinite: en bulk
- definite: bulken
So in this sentence, the noun is in the definite form.
Norwegian usually builds the into the noun itself.
So instead of saying something like the bulk, Norwegian says bulken. That -en ending already carries the meaning of the.
This is very common in Norwegian:
- bil = car
- bilen = the car
So bulken already includes the idea of the.
This is the normal word order for a simple statement in Norwegian:
subject + verb + adjective/complement
So here:
- Bulken = subject
- er = verb
- liten = adjective describing the subject
It works very much like English The ... is small.