Oversendelsen kommer etter saksforberedelsen.

to come

Breakdown of Oversendelsen kommer etter saksforberedelsen.

• etter: after
• saksforberedelsen: the preparation of the appeal case
• oversendelsen: the forwarding of the appeal

Questions & Answers about Oversendelsen kommer etter saksforberedelsen.

Why do both nouns end in -en?

Because both nouns are in the definite singular form.

In Norwegian, many masculine nouns take -en when they mean the ...:

• en oversendelse = an onward transmission / a forwarding

• oversendelsen = the onward transmission / the forwarding

• en saksforberedelse = a case preparation / the preparation of a case
• saksforberedelsen = the case preparation / the preparation of the case

So the sentence uses the form for both nouns, not the indefinite a/an form.

Why is there no separate word for the?

Norwegian usually adds definiteness to the end of the noun instead of putting a separate article before it.

So where English says:

• the transmission
• the case preparation

Norwegian often says:

• oversendelsen
• saksforberedelsen

The idea of the is built into the ending.

What form is kommer?

Kommer is the present tense of å komme = to come.

So:

• å komme = to come
• kommer = comes / is coming

In a sentence like this, the present tense can describe a general sequence or a scheduled/expected step, not only something happening right now. That is very common in formal or procedural language.