Fiskesnellen brukes til fritidsfisket.

to use

Breakdown of Fiskesnellen brukes til fritidsfisket.

• til: for/to
• fritidsfisket: recreational fishing
• fiskesnellen: the fishing reel

Questions & Answers about Fiskesnellen brukes til fritidsfisket.

Why is fiskesnellen written as one word?

Because Norwegian usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

Here, fiskesnellen is made up of:

• fiske = fishing
• snelle = reel
• -n / -en = the definite ending

So the basic noun is fiskesnelle, and the definite form is fiskesnellen.

This is very normal in Norwegian. Where English often uses two words, Norwegian often uses one:

• fishing reel → fiskesnelle
• school bus → skolebuss

Why does fiskesnellen end in -en?

The ending -en marks the noun as definite singular, so it means the fishing reel.

Compare:

• en fiskesnelle = a fishing reel
• fiskesnellen = the fishing reel

Norwegian often puts definiteness at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like the.

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