Hun arbeider i senatet.

she

Breakdown of Hun arbeider i senatet.

• i: in
• arbeide: to work
• senatet: the senate

Questions & Answers about Hun arbeider i senatet.

What does hun mean, and is it always used for she?

Yes. Hun is the Norwegian subject pronoun meaning she.

In this sentence, hun is the person doing the action:

• Hun arbeider = She works

A few useful related pronouns:

• hun = she
• han = he
• jeg = I
• du = you

In everyday speech, Norwegian sometimes drops pronouns less often than English, so keeping hun here is completely normal and necessary.

Why is the verb arbeider in second position?

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

So in:

• Hun arbeider i senatet

the structure is:

• Hun = subject
• arbeider = verb
• i senatet = prepositional phrase

This is the normal basic word order.

You can also move another element to the front, but then the verb still stays second:

• I senatet arbeider hun. = In the senate, she works.

That sounds more marked or stylistic, but it shows the same word-order rule.

What form of verb is arbeider?