Kjølekjeden holder oppbevaringstemperaturen stabil.

to keep

Breakdown of Kjølekjeden holder oppbevaringstemperaturen stabil.

• stabil: stable
• kjølekjeden: the cold chain
• oppbevaringstemperaturen: the storage temperature

Questions & Answers about Kjølekjeden holder oppbevaringstemperaturen stabil.

What does kjølekjeden mean, and why is it one long word?

Kjølekjeden means the cold chain or the refrigeration chain.

It is a compound noun, which is extremely common in Norwegian. Norwegian usually writes compounds as one word, where English often uses two words or a hyphen.

Here:

• kjøle = cool / refrigerate
• kjede = chain
• kjølekjede = cold chain
• kjølekjeden = the cold chain

So if you split it into separate words, it would usually look wrong in Norwegian.

Why does kjølekjeden end in -en?

The ending -en marks the noun as definite singular for many masculine nouns.

So:

• en kjølekjede = a cold chain
• kjølekjeden = the cold chain

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

What does holder mean here?