Voksestedet avslører ikke nødvendigvis sopparten.

The growing site does not necessarily reveal the mushroom species.

Breakdown of Voksestedet avslører ikke nødvendigvis sopparten.

• avsløre: to reveal
• sopparten: the mushroom species
• voksestedet: the growing site; habitat
• ikke nødvendigvis: not necessarily

Questions & Answers about Voksestedet avslører ikke nødvendigvis sopparten.

Why do voksestedet and sopparten have endings attached to them instead of a separate word for the?

Because Norwegian usually marks definiteness by adding it to the end of the noun.

• voksested = growing place / habitat
• voksestedet = the growing place / the habitat

And:

• soppart = mushroom species
• sopparten = the mushroom species

This is very common in Norwegian. Instead of using a separate article like English the, Norwegian often uses a suffix:

• en bil = a car
• bilen = the car
• et hus = a house
• huset = the house

Here, voksestedet is a neuter noun, so it takes -et, while sopparten is a common-gender noun, so it takes -en.

What exactly is voksestedet?

Voksestedet is a compound noun.

It is built from:

• vokse = to grow
• sted = place

So voksested literally means growing place, and in natural English that often corresponds to habitat, place where something grows, or growing site.

With the definite ending:

• voksestedet = the place where it grows / the habitat

Norwegian uses compound nouns very freely, often more freely than English does.