Rydderegistreringen viser aksjonskoden.

The clean-up registration includes the clean-up code.

Breakdown of Rydderegistreringen viser aksjonskoden.

• vise: to show
• aksjonskoden: the clean-up code
• rydderegistreringen: the clean-up registration

Questions & Answers about Rydderegistreringen viser aksjonskoden.

Why are Rydderegistreringen and aksjonskoden written as single words?

Because Norwegian usually writes compound nouns as one word, where English often uses two or more words.

• rydderegistreringen = rydde-
  • registrering
    • -en
• aksjonskoden = aksjon
  • kode
    • -n/-en

In a compound, the last part is usually the main noun, and the earlier part(s) describe it. So registrering is the core of rydderegistrering, and kode is the core of aksjonskode.

For English speakers, this is very common to notice because English might prefer something like cleanup registration or action code, with spaces.

What does the ending -en mean in Rydderegistreringen and aksjonskoden?

It marks the noun as definite singular — in other words, it means the.

Examples:

• en registrering = a registration

• registreringen = the registration

• en kode = a code
• koden = the code

With compounds, the definite ending goes on the whole compound, not on the first part:

• en aksjonskode → aksjonskoden
• en rydderegistrering → rydderegistreringen

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