Forehandkastet flyr mot diskgolfkurven.

to fly

Breakdown of Forehandkastet flyr mot diskgolfkurven.

• mot: toward
• diskgolfkurven: the disc-golf basket
• forehandkastet: the forehand throw

Questions & Answers about Forehandkastet flyr mot diskgolfkurven.

Why are forehandkastet and diskgolfkurven written as one word?

Because Norwegian normally writes compound nouns as one word.

• forehandkastet = forehand
  • kastet
• diskgolfkurven = diskgolf
  • kurven

This is very different from English, where similar expressions are often written as two words, like forehand throw or disc golf basket.

A useful rule:

• If English has noun + noun, Norwegian often makes it one compound word.

The last part of the compound is the main noun, and it decides the gender and ending:

• et kast → forehandkastet
• en kurv → diskgolfkurven

Why does forehandkastet end in -et?

The ending -et marks the noun as definite singular for a neuter noun.

Here is the pattern:

• et kast = a throw
• kastet = the throw

Since kast is a neuter noun, the definite singular ending is -et.

And because forehandkast is a compound whose main noun is kast, it follows the same pattern:

• et forehandkast = a forehand throw
• forehandkastet = the forehand throw

So -et does not mean past tense here. It just means the.