Flyttemeldingen må sendes uavhengig av om postadressen endres eller ikke.

The notification of a move must be sent regardless of whether the postal address changes or not.

Breakdown of Flyttemeldingen må sendes uavhengig av om postadressen endres eller ikke.

• må: must
• ikke: not
• eller: or
• sende: to send

Questions & Answers about Flyttemeldingen må sendes uavhengig av om postadressen endres eller ikke.

What does Flyttemeldingen mean grammatically?

Flyttemeldingen is made up of:

• flytte = to move
• melding = message / notice / notification
• -en = the (definite singular ending for many masculine nouns)

So en flyttemelding = a change-of-address notice / moving notification, and
flyttemeldingen = the change-of-address notice.

Norwegian very often forms nouns this way by combining words into one compound noun.

Why is flyttemeldingen one word?

Because Norwegian uses compound nouns much more than English does.

So where English might use:

• moving notice
• postal address
• change notice

Norwegian often writes them as single words:

• flyttemelding
• postadresse

This is completely normal and very important in Norwegian spelling.

Why does the sentence use må?