Avviksmeldingen er klar.

to be

Breakdown of Avviksmeldingen er klar.

• klar: ready
• avviksmeldingen: the incident report

Questions & Answers about Avviksmeldingen er klar.

What does avviksmeldingen break down into?

Avviksmeldingen is a compound noun:

• avvik = deviation, discrepancy, non-conformity
• melding = report, notification, message
• -en = the (definite singular ending)

So avviksmeldingen literally means something like the deviation report or the incident/non-conformity report, depending on context.

Why is the attached to the end of avviksmelding instead of being a separate word?

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun.

So:

• en avviksmelding = a deviation report
• avviksmeldingen = the deviation report

This is very common in Norwegian:

• en bil = a car
• bilen = the car

So the ending -en is doing the job that the does in English.

Why is it -en at the end and not some other ending?

Because avviksmelding is a common-gender noun in Norwegian, and common-gender nouns usually take -en in the singular definite form.

A basic pattern is:

• en melding = a report/message
• meldingen = the report/message

Since avviksmelding follows the same pattern:

• en avviksmelding
• avviksmeldingen