Notekunnskapen hjelper henne.

Music-reading ability helps her.

Breakdown of Notekunnskapen hjelper henne.

• hjelpe: to help
• henne: her
• notekunnskapen: the music-reading ability

Questions & Answers about Notekunnskapen hjelper henne.

Why is notekunnskapen written as one word?

Because Norwegian usually forms compound nouns as one single word.

Here, notekunnskapen is built from:

• note = note
• kunnskap = knowledge
• -en = the definite ending

So notekunnskap means something like knowledge of notes / knowledge of musical notation, and notekunnskapen means the knowledge of notes / the music-reading knowledge.

This is very normal in Norwegian. Where English often uses several words, Norwegian often joins them into one.

What does the ending -en in notekunnskapen mean?

The ending -en is the definite singular article attached to the noun.

So:

• notekunnskap = note knowledge / knowledge of notation
• notekunnskapen = the note knowledge / the knowledge of notation

Unlike English, Norwegian often puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word.

Why is it henne and not hun?