Reisegarantien beskriver passasjerrettighetene.

The travel guarantee describes the passenger rights.

Breakdown of Reisegarantien beskriver passasjerrettighetene.

• beskrive: to describe
• reisegarantien: the travel guarantee
• passasjerrettighetene: the passenger rights

Questions & Answers about Reisegarantien beskriver passasjerrettighetene.

Why is Reisegarantien one word?

Norwegian very often makes compound nouns, just like English can do in words such as travel insurance, school bus, or passport control.

Reisegarantien is built from:

• reise = travel
• garanti = guarantee
• reisegaranti = travel guarantee
• reisegarantien = the travel guarantee

So instead of writing two separate words, Norwegian normally joins them into one noun.

Why does Reisegaranti become Reisegarantien?

The ending -en marks the noun as definite singular for many masculine nouns.

So:

• en reisegaranti = a travel guarantee
• reisegarantien = the travel guarantee

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word in front, as English does with the.

Why is there no separate word for the before Reisegarantien?

Because Norwegian often puts the definite article onto the noun itself.

Compare:

• English: the travel guarantee
• Norwegian: reisegarantien

This is one of the biggest differences from English.
So -en here is doing the job that the does in English.