Striken gir høyt pinnefall.

Because striken is the definite singular form of the noun strike.

In Norwegian, definiteness is usually added to the end of the noun:

• en strike = a strike
• striken = the strike

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

Yes. In bowling, strike is a common loanword in Norwegian. Even though it originally comes from English, it behaves like a Norwegian noun in the sentence.

In Bokmål, it is normally treated as a noun like en strike, and then it can take Norwegian endings such as -en in striken.

Gir is the present tense of å gi, which means to give.

So:

• å gi = to give
• gir = gives / gives rise to / produces

In this sentence, gir is being used in the sense of produces or results in.

Also, Norwegian verbs do not change according to the subject the way English verbs do. You use gir with jeg, du, han, vi, and so on.

Pinnefall is a compound noun:

• pinne = pin
• fall = fall

So literally it is something like pin-fall. In bowling, it refers to the number of pins knocked down.

This is very typical Norwegian: instead of using several separate words, Norwegian often combines them into one compound noun.

Because pinnefall is a neuter noun, so the adjective has to agree with it.

The adjective høy changes like this:

• høy with common-gender singular nouns
• høyt with neuter singular nouns

So if the noun is et pinnefall, then the correct form is høyt pinnefall.

This is one of the basic adjective agreement patterns in Norwegian.

Here it is best understood as an adjective modifying pinnefall.

So høyt pinnefall means high pinfall.

This can be confusing because the -t form in Norwegian is also often used as an adverb. But in this sentence, høyt belongs with the noun pinnefall, so it is functioning as an adjective in a noun phrase.

Because pinnefall is being used in a more general, quantity-like way here, not as one specific countable item.

Norwegian often leaves out the article with nouns used like this, especially when talking about:

• results
• quantities
• abstract ideas
• general categories

So høyt pinnefall is similar to English expressions like high pinfall, high speed, or good quality, where you are naming a kind of result rather than one individual object.

It can do either, depending on context.

Most literally, striken means the strike, referring to a specific strike.

But Norwegian can also use the definite singular in a more general sense, especially in explanatory or descriptive statements. So this sentence can also be understood as a general statement about what a strike does in bowling.

So in context, Striken gir høyt pinnefall can mean something like:

• The strike gives high pinfall
• or more naturally in English, A strike gives high pinfall

No, this is a very straightforward Norwegian main clause.

The order is:

• Striken = subject
• gir = finite verb
• høyt pinnefall = object/complement

So it follows the basic pattern subject + verb + rest.

It also fits the normal Norwegian V2 rule for main clauses: the finite verb comes in the second position. Since the subject is first here, the verb naturally comes right after it.