Breakdown of Verktøybiblioteket har en reserveringsperiode.
ha
to have
en
a
verktøybiblioteket
the tool library
reserveringsperioden
the reservation period
Questions & Answers about Verktøybiblioteket har en reserveringsperiode.
Why is Verktøybiblioteket written as one long word?
Because Norwegian very often forms compound nouns by writing them as one word.
So:
- verktøy = tool / tools
- bibliotek = library
Together:
- verktøybibliotek = tool library
This is much more standard in Norwegian than in English, where we usually write tool library as two words.
Why does Verktøybiblioteket end in -et?
The ending -et is the definite article attached to the noun. In Norwegian, you usually put the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English the.
Here the main noun is bibliotek:
- et bibliotek = a library
- biblioteket = the library
Since verktøybibliotek is a compound whose main word is bibliotek, the whole word becomes definite in the same way:
- et verktøybibliotek = a tool library
- verktøybiblioteket = the tool library
Why is there no separate word for the before Verktøybiblioteket?
Because Norwegian usually marks definiteness with a suffix, not a separate article.
English:
- the tool library
Norwegian:
- verktøybiblioteket
So the idea of the is already included in -et.