Questions & Answers about Hun ga et verdig svar.
Why is it ga and not the infinitive gi?
Because ga is the past tense of gi (to give).
A very common pattern to learn is:
- å gi = to give
- gir = gives / is giving
- ga = gave
- har gitt = has/have given
So in Hun ga et verdig svar, the verb shows that the action happened in the past.
Why does the sentence start with Hun?
Hun is the subject pronoun meaning she. It tells you who did the action.
In Norwegian subject pronouns include:
- jeg = I
- du = you
- han = he
- hun = she
- vi = we
- de = they
So Hun ga ... means she gave ...
What kind of word is et here?
Et is the indefinite article for a neuter noun.
Norwegian nouns have grammatical gender, and in Bokmål the main indefinite articles are:
- en for many common-gender nouns
- et for neuter nouns
Here, svar is a neuter noun, so it takes et:
- et svar = an answer
If the noun were a common-gender noun, you would usually see en instead.