Kundegrunnlaget vokser.

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Breakdown of Kundegrunnlaget vokser.

• kundegrunnlaget: the customer base

Questions & Answers about Kundegrunnlaget vokser.

Why is kundegrunnlaget written as one word?

Because Norwegian usually writes compound nouns as one word.

• kunde = customer
• grunnlag = basis / foundation / base

So kundegrunnlag means customer base, and kundegrunnlaget means the customer base.

This is very normal in Norwegian. Where English often uses two words, Norwegian often combines them:

• kundegrunnlag = customer base
• arbeidsplass = workplace
• skolebok = schoolbook

Why does kundegrunnlaget end in -et?

The ending -et marks the noun as definite singular.

The head word here is grunnlag, which is a neuter noun. In Norwegian compounds, the last part usually decides the gender and inflection of the whole word.

So:

• et grunnlag = a basis / a base
• grunnlaget = the basis / the base
• et kundegrunnlag = a customer base
• kundegrunnlaget = the customer base

So the sentence is using the definite form, not a separate word for the.

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