Jeg skylder deg hundre kroner.

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Breakdown of Jeg skylder deg hundre kroner.

• deg: you
• hundre: 100
• kronen: the Norwegian krone

Questions & Answers about Jeg skylder deg hundre kroner.

What does each word in Jeg skylder deg hundre kroner do?

A word-by-word breakdown:

• Jeg = I
• skylder = owe / am owing
• deg = you (object form)
• hundre = hundred
• kroner = kroner / crowns, the Norwegian currency unit

So the structure is basically:

I + owe + you + one hundred kroner

Norwegian often builds this kind of sentence very similarly to English.

Why is it deg and not du?

Because deg is the object form of du.

• du = you as the subject
• deg = you as the object

In this sentence, you is receiving the debt, not doing the action:

• Jeg skylder deg ... = I owe you ...

Compare:

• Du skylder meg hundre kroner. = You owe me one hundred kroner.

Here are the common forms:

• jeg → meg
• du → deg

So deg is required here.

What is the infinitive of skylder, and how is this verb used?