Bruksenhetsnummeret står på døren.

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Breakdown of Bruksenhetsnummeret står på døren.

• døren: the door
• stå: to say (in writing)
• bruksenhetsnummeret: the unit number

Questions & Answers about Bruksenhetsnummeret står på døren.

Why is bruksenhetsnummeret written as one long word?

Because Norwegian usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

Here, bruksenhetsnummeret is built from:

• bruksenhetsnummer = the dwelling-unit number / unit number
• -et = the definite ending, giving the ... number

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

• togstasjon = train station
• mobilnummer = mobile number
• bruksenhetsnummer = dwelling-unit number

The last part of the compound is the main noun. Here that is nummer.

What does the ending -et in bruksenhetsnummeret mean?

-et is the definite singular ending, so it means the.

So:

• et bruksenhetsnummer = a dwelling-unit number
• bruksenhetsnummeret = the dwelling-unit number

The reason it is -et is that the head noun is nummer, which is a neuter noun:

• et nummer
• nummeret

Why is there no separate word for the in this sentence?