En i reisefølget har DNT-nøkkelen.

to have

Breakdown of En i reisefølget har DNT-nøkkelen.

• i: in
• en: one
• DNT-nøkkelen: the DNT cabin key

Questions & Answers about En i reisefølget har DNT-nøkkelen.

What does En mean here?

Here en means one or one person, not just the article a.

So En i reisefølget means something like one of the people in the travel party.

In other words, the sentence is pointing to one unspecified member of the group.

Could this also be written Én i reisefølget?

Yes. Writing Én with an accent is possible when you want to emphasize one.

• En i reisefølget har DNT-nøkkelen = neutral, normal
• Én i reisefølget har DNT-nøkkelen = emphasizes that one particular person in the group has it

The accent is often used to avoid confusion between:

• en = the article a/an
• én = the number/pronoun one

In everyday writing, many people leave the accent out if the meaning is already clear from context.

Is there a missing noun after en?

Yes, in a way. Norwegian often leaves out a noun when it is easy to understand from context.

So En i reisefølget literally looks like One in the travel party, but the understood meaning is:

• one person in the travel party
• one member of the travel party

English does this too sometimes, as in one of us.

Why is it reisefølget and not et reisefølge?