Målesesongen dekker vinterhalvåret.

to cover

Breakdown of Målesesongen dekker vinterhalvåret.

• målesesongen: the radon measurement season
• vinterhalvåret: the winter half of the year

Questions & Answers about Målesesongen dekker vinterhalvåret.

Why is målesesongen one long word?

Because Norwegian normally writes compound nouns as one word.
So målesesongen is made up of:

• måle = measure
• sesong = season
• -en = the definite ending

Together, it means something like the measuring season or the measurement season.

This is very common in Norwegian. Where English often uses two words, Norwegian often uses one compound word.

Why isn’t there a separate word for the?

In Norwegian, the is often added to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word.

So:

• sesong = season
• sesongen = the season

And:

• halvår = half-year
• halvåret = the half-year

That is why the sentence does not need a separate word like English the.

What form is dekker?

Dekker is the present tense of å dekke = to cover.

So:

• å dekke = to cover
• dekker = covers / is covering

In this sentence, dekker means covers in the sense of includes, spans, or extends over.

Does only mean physically covering something?