Sikkerhetsinstruksen gjelder slagdrillen.

The safety instruction applies to the hammer drill.

Breakdown of Sikkerhetsinstruksen gjelder slagdrillen.

• gjelde: to apply
• sikkerhetsinstruksen: the safety instruction
• slagdrillen: the hammer drill

Questions & Answers about Sikkerhetsinstruksen gjelder slagdrillen.

Why do both sikkerhetsinstruksen and slagdrillen end in -en?

Because -en is the usual singular definite ending for many masculine nouns in Bokmål.

• en instruks → instruksen
• en slagdrill → slagdrillen

So the ending -en does the job that English usually expresses with the.

In this sentence, both nouns are definite:

• sikkerhetsinstruksen = the safety instruction
• slagdrillen = the hammer drill

Why is there no separate word for the in this sentence?

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun instead of appearing as a separate word before it.

So:

• English: the drill
• Norwegian: drillen

That is why you see sikkerhetsinstruksen and slagdrillen, not separate words for the.

A useful extra point: when there is an adjective before the noun, Norwegian often uses both a separate article and the ending, for example den nye drillen. But in your sentence there is no adjective, so the ending alone is enough.

What does gjelder mean here, exactly?