Spillinstruksene beskriver vanskelighetsgraden.

The game instructions describe the difficulty level.

Breakdown of Spillinstruksene beskriver vanskelighetsgraden.

• beskrive: to describe
• spillinstruksene: the game instructions
• vanskelighetsgraden: the difficulty level

Questions & Answers about Spillinstruksene beskriver vanskelighetsgraden.

Why is Spillinstruksene written as one word?

Because Norwegian very often forms compound nouns as a single word.

• spill = game
• instruksene = the instructions

Together, spillinstruksene means the game instructions.

This is different from English, which usually writes similar expressions as separate words. In Norwegian, writing this as two words would usually be considered wrong or at least unnatural in standard writing.

What does the ending -ene in Spillinstruksene mean?

The ending -ene is the definite plural ending for many nouns in Bokmål.

So:

• en instruks = an instruction
• instrukser = instructions
• instruksene = the instructions

In spillinstruksene, the whole word is plural and definite: the game instructions.

Why is there no separate word for the?

In Norwegian, definiteness is often built into the noun itself instead of using a separate word like English the.

So instead of saying:

• the instructions

Norwegian often says:

• instruksene

The same happens with vanskelighetsgraden, where -en marks the.

Why is vanskelighetsgraden such a long word?