Audiografen leser audiogrammet.

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Breakdown of Audiografen leser audiogrammet.

• audiogrammet: the audiogram
• audiografen: the audiologist

Questions & Answers about Audiografen leser audiogrammet.

Why do audiografen and audiogrammet have endings attached to them?

Because Norwegian usually puts the definite article on the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

• en audiograf = an audiographer / audiologist
• audiografen = the audiographer / the audiologist
• et audiogram = an audiogram
• audiogrammet = the audiogram

So the sentence uses two definite nouns:

• audiografen = the audiographer
• audiogrammet = the audiogram

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

In Norwegian, the is usually built into the noun itself.

English:

• the audiographer
• the audiogram

Norwegian:

• audiografen
• audiogrammet

This is one of the biggest differences from English. Instead of putting a separate article before the noun, Norwegian often adds a suffix:

• common gender nouns often take -en
• neuter nouns often take -et

Why does one noun end in -en but the other ends in -et?