Pasienten trenger oksygen.

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Breakdown of Pasienten trenger oksygen.

• pasienten: the patient
• oksygenet: the oxygen

Questions & Answers about Pasienten trenger oksygen.

Why is it pasienten and not just pasient?

Because pasienten is the definite singular form: the patient.

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word like English the.

• en pasient = a patient
• pasienten = the patient

So Pasienten trenger oksygen uses the form for the patient.

Why isn’t there a separate word for the in front of pasienten?

Norwegian usually puts definiteness on the noun itself as a suffix.

So instead of saying something like the patient, Norwegian often says:

• pasienten

This is very common in Norwegian:

• boken = the book
• legen = the doctor
• pasienten = the patient

A separate word like den/det/de can appear too, but usually only in certain structures, especially when there is an adjective:

• pasienten = the patient
• den syke pasienten = the sick patient

What form of verb is trenger?