Strandryddeaksjonen dekker ryddeområdet.

The beach clean-up event covers the clean-up area.

Breakdown of Strandryddeaksjonen dekker ryddeområdet.

• dekke: to cover
• strandryddeaksjonen: the beach clean-up event
• ryddeområdet: the clean-up area

Questions & Answers about Strandryddeaksjonen dekker ryddeområdet.

Why are strandryddeaksjonen and ryddeområdet written as one word each?

Because Norwegian very often makes compound nouns by joining words together.

• strand = beach
• rydde = clean up / tidy
• aksjon = campaign / action

So strandryddeaksjonen is one compound noun meaning something like the beach-cleanup campaign/action.

Likewise:

• rydde = clean up
• område = area

So ryddeområdet means the cleanup area.

This is very normal in Norwegian. Where English often writes several words, Norwegian frequently combines them into one.

Why does strandryddeaksjonen end in -en?

The ending -en is the definite singular ending for many common-gender nouns in Norwegian.

The base noun is aksjon = campaign/action.
Its definite singular form is aksjonen = the campaign/action.

Inside the compound, that gives:

• strandryddeaksjon = beach-cleanup campaign
• strandryddeaksjonen = the beach-cleanup campaign

So the -en works like English the, but it is attached to the noun.

Why does ryddeområdet end in -et instead of -en?