Utekatten får ormekuren.

to receive

Breakdown of Utekatten får ormekuren.

• ormekuren: the deworming treatment
• utekatten: the outdoor cat

Questions & Answers about Utekatten får ormekuren.

Why is utekatten written as one word?

Because Norwegian usually writes compound nouns as a single word.

• ute = outside / outdoors
• katt = cat
• utekatt = outdoor cat, outside cat

Then -en is added to make it definite:

• en utekatt = an outdoor cat
• utekatten = the outdoor cat

So utekatten is one word because it is a compound noun in definite form.

Why does utekatten end in -en?

The ending -en is the definite article for many masculine nouns in Norwegian.

With katt:

• en katt = a cat
• katten = the cat

With the compound utekatt:

• en utekatt = an outdoor cat
• utekatten = the outdoor cat

So Norwegian often puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word like English does.

What does får mean here?