Parkering er lovlig her.

Parkering is a noun, meaning parking as an activity or practice. In this sentence, Norwegian is talking about parking in a general sense, not about someone specifically doing the action right now.

So:

• Parkering er lovlig her. = Parking is legal here.

If you wanted a verb-based version, Norwegian often uses:

• Det er lov å parkere her. = It is allowed to park here.

Both are natural, but the sentence you were given uses the noun parkering.

No. Norwegian often leaves out the article when talking about something in a general, abstract way.

Here, parkering means parking in general, so no article is needed:

• Parkering er lovlig her.

If you said parkeringen, that would mean the parking, referring to some specific parking situation or parking arrangement, which is not what this sentence is doing.

It is a noun formed from a verb. The verb is:

• å parkere = to park

And the noun is:

• parkering = parking

This is similar to English, where a verb can become a noun:

• to park → parking

In Norwegian, nouns ending in -ing are very common and often describe an action or process.

Because Norwegian normally needs a verb in a full sentence, just like English does.

The verb here is:

• er = is

So the structure is:

• Parkering = subject
• er = verb
• lovlig = adjective/predicative complement
• her = adverb

Without er, the sentence would be incomplete in standard Norwegian.

Er is the present tense of å være, which means to be.

So:

• er = is / am / are, depending on context

In this sentence:

• Parkering er lovlig her.
• Parking is legal here.

Norwegian uses the same form, er, for all persons in the present tense:

• jeg er
• du er
• han/hun er
• vi er

Lovlig means legal or lawful.

In this sentence, it describes the subject parkering:

• Parkering er lovlig her.
• Parking is legal here.

It works like an adjective after the verb er, similar to English:

• The action is legal
• Aktiviteten er lovlig

Here lovlig is in its basic form, which is normal after er with a singular noun like parkering.

Also, adjectives ending in -lig usually do not change in the neuter singular the way many other adjectives do. So lovlig often stays lovlig.

For this sentence, the important thing is simply that lovlig is the correct form after er.

Her means here.

It is placed at the end because that is a very natural position in Norwegian for a word telling you location.

So the sentence literally follows this pattern:

• Parking is legal here

You could move parts around in other contexts, but her at the end is straightforward and natural.

The word order is:

• Subject + verb + complement + adverb

So:

• Parkering = subject
• er = verb
• lovlig = complement
• her = adverb of place

This is very similar to normal English word order:

• Parking is legal here.

Yes, absolutely. That is a very common alternative.

Compare:

• Parkering er lovlig her.
• Det er lov å parkere her.

Both express the same basic idea, but Det er lov å parkere her often sounds a bit more everyday and idiomatic in many situations.

The sentence with parkering is still perfectly understandable and grammatical.

They are related, but they are not the same word type.

• lov = law or, in some expressions, permission
• lovlig = legal / lawful

So:

• Det er lov å parkere her. = It is allowed to park here.
• Parkering er lovlig her. = Parking is legal here.

The first focuses more on permission. The second focuses more on legality.

In many everyday situations, the difference is small.

You usually put ikke after the verb:

• Parkering er ikke lovlig her. = Parking is not legal here.

A more idiomatic everyday version is often:

• Det er ikke lov å parkere her. = It is not allowed to park here.

Both are correct; the second is especially common in ordinary speech and signs.

Possibly, yes, but signs often use even shorter or more fixed expressions.

Common sign-style Norwegian includes:

• Parkering tillatt = Parking allowed
• Parkering forbudt = Parking prohibited
• Det er lov å parkere her = It is allowed to park here

Parkering er lovlig her is grammatical and clear, but it can sound a bit more like a full explanatory sentence than the most typical sign wording.

A rough English-friendly approximation is:

• par-KEH-ring er LOHV-lee her

A few notes:

• r in Norwegian is usually stronger than in most English accents.
• g in lovlig is often weak or softened in speech.
• her is pronounced more like hehr than English here.

Exact pronunciation varies by dialect, but this approximation is enough to get started.

Usually parkering means parking as an activity, system, or general concept. In some contexts it can also refer to parking arrangements more broadly.

If you specifically mean a parking place or parking lot, Norwegian often uses words like:

• parkeringsplass = parking space
• parkeringsplass / parkeringsområde = parking area

In your sentence, parkering clearly means the activity or practice of parking.

Norwegian usually prefers its own adapted forms rather than simply using the English word unchanged in standard writing.

So instead of English parking, Norwegian normally uses:

• parkering

It comes from the verb å parkere, plus the common noun ending -ing. This is very typical Norwegian word formation.