De møter krigeren.

At the start of a sentence, De may simply be de meaning they, because the first word is always capitalized.

However, De can also mean a very formal, polite you in older or especially formal written Norwegian. That usage is much less common today.

So in a normal modern learning sentence, De is usually understood as they, but technically the sentence-initial capital letter does not by itself remove the ambiguity.

Møter is the present tense of the verb å møte.

So:

• å møte = the infinitive, to meet
• møter = meet / meets

In Norwegian, the present tense is often made by adding -r to the verb.

No. Norwegian verbs are much simpler here than English verbs.

You use the same present-tense form for all persons:

• jeg møter
• du møter
• han møter
• vi møter
• de møter

So møter stays the same no matter who is doing the action.

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun.

So:

• en kriger = a warrior
• krigeren = the warrior

The ending -en is the common definite singular ending for many masculine nouns in Bokmål.

The base form is kriger.

If you are looking it up in a dictionary, you would normally search for kriger, not krigeren.

A useful pattern is:

• en kriger = indefinite singular
• krigeren = definite singular
• krigere = indefinite plural
• krigerne = definite plural

You know mainly from word order.

In a normal Norwegian statement, the usual order is: subject + verb + object

So in De møter krigeren:

• De = subject
• møter = verb
• krigeren = object

Unlike English pronouns such as he/him, Norwegian nouns usually do not change form to show subject versus object. Word order does most of that work.

It follows the normal Subject–Verb–Object pattern:

• De = subject
• møter = verb
• krigeren = object

More generally, Norwegian is a V2 language, which means the finite verb usually comes in the second position in main clauses.

For example:

• De møter krigeren.
• I dag møter de krigeren.

In the second sentence, I dag comes first, so the verb møter still stays in second position.

For a yes/no question, you usually move the verb to the front:

Møter de krigeren?

For a question with a question word, the question word comes first, and the verb still comes before the subject:

Når møter de krigeren?

So the statement-to-question change is mostly about word order.

The hardest part for English speakers is usually ø.

• ø has no exact English equivalent
• it is similar to the vowel in French deux or German schön

A rough IPA pronunciation is:

• møter = /ˈmøːtər/

The ø sound is made with rounded lips. It is worth practicing separately, because it appears in many Norwegian words.

This sentence is Bokmål.

In Nynorsk, the equivalent would normally be:

Dei møter krigaren.

The biggest differences here are:

• de → dei
• krigeren → krigaren

So if you are studying Bokmål, De møter krigeren fits that standard.