Arbeidssøkeren leser permitteringsvarselet.

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Breakdown of Arbeidssøkeren leser permitteringsvarselet.

• arbeidssøkeren: the job seeker
• permitteringsvarselet: the temporary-layoff notice

Questions & Answers about Arbeidssøkeren leser permitteringsvarselet.

Why do arbeidssøkeren and permitteringsvarselet end in -en and -et?

Those endings are the definite articles attached to the nouns.

In Norwegian, instead of usually putting the in front of a noun, you often add the definite ending to the noun itself:

• arbeidssøker = job seeker

• arbeidssøkeren = the job seeker

• permitteringsvarsel = layoff notice / notice of temporary layoff
• permitteringsvarselet = the layoff notice

So the sentence uses definite nouns: the job seeker and the layoff notice.

Why is there no separate word for the?

Because Norwegian commonly expresses definiteness by adding it to the end of the noun.

English:

• the job seeker
• the notice

Norwegian:

• arbeidssøkeren
• permitteringsvarselet

A separate definite word like den/det/de can appear in some structures, especially with adjectives, for example:

• det store huset = the big house

But in your sentence there are no adjectives, so the suffix alone is enough.

What does leser mean grammatically?