Stoffprøven passer til jakken.

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Breakdown of Stoffprøven passer til jakken.

• jakken: the jacket
• passe: to suit
• stoffprøven: the fabric swatch

Questions & Answers about Stoffprøven passer til jakken.

Why is stoffprøven one word?

Because Norwegian very often makes compound nouns where English would use two words.

• stoff = fabric, cloth, material
• prøve = sample, test piece

So stoffprøve means fabric sample or swatch.

Then the ending -n makes it definite:

• en stoffprøve = a fabric sample
• stoffprøven = the fabric sample

This is very typical in Norwegian. English learners often want to write two separate words, but in Norwegian, one-word compounds are the normal pattern.

Why does stoffprøven end in -en?

The -en is the definite ending for many masculine nouns in Bokmål.

Here is the pattern:

• en prøve = a sample
• prøven = the sample

In a compound, the definite ending goes on the last part of the compound:

• en stoffprøve = a fabric sample
• stoffprøven = the fabric sample

So the sentence is talking about a specific fabric sample, not just any sample.

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