Breakdown of Mva-meldingen leveres digitalt.
Questions & Answers about Mva-meldingen leveres digitalt.
mva is the common abbreviation for merverdiavgift, which is Norwegian for VAT.
In everyday and official Norwegian, abbreviations like this are very common, especially in administrative or business language. So a learner will often see mva instead of the full word.
The hyphen is used because mva is an abbreviation attached to another noun, melding.
In Norwegian, when an abbreviation is the first part of a compound noun, a hyphen is very often used for clarity:
- mva-melding
- tv-serie
- it-avdeling
So mva-meldingen is a normal written form meaning the VAT return/report.
The ending -en marks the noun as definite singular.
The base noun is melding = message / report / return.
Then:
- en melding = a message/report
- meldingen = the message/report
So in mva-meldingen, the last part carries the definite ending, which is how Norwegian compounds normally work:
- mva-melding = a VAT return
- mva-meldingen = the VAT return