Bokføringsplikten gjelder næringsvirksomheten.

The bookkeeping obligation applies to the business activity.

Breakdown of Bokføringsplikten gjelder næringsvirksomheten.

• gjelde: to apply
• næringsvirksomheten: the business activity
• bokføringsplikten: the bookkeeping obligation

Questions & Answers about Bokføringsplikten gjelder næringsvirksomheten.

Why is bokføringsplikten written as one long word?

Because Norwegian very often makes compound nouns by joining words together.

Here, bokføringsplikten is built from:

• bokføring = bookkeeping
• plikt = duty / obligation
• -en = the (definite ending)

So the whole word means the bookkeeping obligation.

This is very normal in Norwegian. Where English often uses several words, Norwegian often prefers one compound word.

What does the ending -en mean in bokføringsplikten?

The ending -en marks the noun as definite singular.

So:

• en plikt = an obligation
• plikten = the obligation

Because bokføringsplikt is a masculine noun, the definite singular form becomes bokføringsplikten = the bookkeeping obligation.

Unlike English, Norwegian usually adds definiteness as an ending to the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

Why is næringsvirksomheten also definite?