Reparatøren kontrollerer batterihelsen.

The repair technician checks the battery health.

Breakdown of Reparatøren kontrollerer batterihelsen.

• kontrollere: to check
• reparatøren: the repair technician
• batterihelsen: the battery health

Questions & Answers about Reparatøren kontrollerer batterihelsen.

Why does reparatør become reparatøren here?

Because Norwegian usually marks the by adding an ending to the noun.

• reparatør = a repairer / a technician
• reparatøren = the repairer / the technician

This -en ending is the common definite singular ending for many masculine and common-gender nouns in Bokmål.

Compare:

• en reparatør = a technician
• reparatøren = the technician

So instead of a separate word like English the, Norwegian often attaches definiteness directly to the noun.

Why is there no separate word for the in the sentence?

In Norwegian, the definite article is often a suffix, not a separate word.

So:

• reparatøren already means the technician
• batterihelsen already means the battery health

That is why you do not need a separate word before the noun in this sentence.

A learner often expects something like English the technician checks the battery health, but Norwegian normally builds the the meaning into the noun itself.

Why does the verb end in -er in kontrollerer?