Hun unngår å krasje bilen.

she

Breakdown of Hun unngår å krasje bilen.

• bilen: the car
• å: to
• unngå: to avoid

Questions & Answers about Hun unngår å krasje bilen.

What does hun mean, and when is it used?

Hun means she.

It is the subject pronoun used for a female person:

• Hun kjører. = She drives.
• Hun unngår å krasje bilen. = She avoids crashing the car.

In modern spoken Norwegian, some dialects may use other forms, but hun is the standard written Bokmål form.

What form is unngår, and what is the infinitive?

Unngår is the present tense of the verb å unngå, which means to avoid.

Some common forms are:

• å unngå = to avoid
• unngår = avoids / is avoiding
• unngikk = avoided
• har unngått = has avoided

So Hun unngår ... means She avoids ...

Why is there an å before krasje?

Here, å is the infinitive marker, like to in English.

So:

• å krasje = to crash
• å kjøre = to drive
• å spise = to eat

In Hun unngår å krasje bilen, the structure is:

• unngår = avoids
• å krasje bilen = to crash the car

So literally, it is She avoids to crash the car, but in natural English we say She avoids crashing the car.