Vedlikeholdsplanen gjelder taket.

the roof

Breakdown of Vedlikeholdsplanen gjelder taket.

• gjelde: to apply
• vedlikeholdsplanen: the maintenance plan

Questions & Answers about Vedlikeholdsplanen gjelder taket.

Why is vedlikeholdsplanen written as one word?

Because Norwegian normally writes compound nouns as a single word.
So vedlikeholdsplanen is built from:

• vedlikehold = maintenance
• plan = plan
• -en = the definite singular ending

The whole thing becomes one noun: vedlikeholdsplanen. This is very common in Norwegian, much more so than in English.

What is the -s- in vedlikeholdsplanen?

The s is a linking s used in many Norwegian compounds. It is not the same as the English possessive 's.

So:

• vedlikehold
• • linking s
• • plan

becomes vedlikeholdsplan.

There is not always a simple rule for when Norwegian uses this linking s, so it is often something you learn together with the word.

Why does vedlikeholdsplanen end in -en?

The ending -en shows that the noun is definite singular: the maintenance plan.

The base noun is en plan and its definite form is planen. In a compound noun, the last part decides the gender and the ending, so:

• en plan → planen
• en vedlikeholdsplan → vedlikeholdsplanen