Hun viser diamanten.

Because hun is the subject form of she.

In Hun viser diamanten, hun is the person doing the action, so Norwegian uses hun.

• hun = she (subject)
• henne = her (object)

Examples:

• Hun viser diamanten. = She shows the diamond.
• Jeg ser henne. = I see her.

Viser is the present tense of the verb å vise, which means to show.

So:

• å vise = to show
• viser = show / shows / is showing, depending on context

Norwegian present tense is often made by adding -r to the infinitive:

• vise → viser
• snakke → snakker
• kjøpe → kjøper

It can mean both, depending on context.

Norwegian usually does not have a special everyday verb form that directly matches the English be + -ing form. So viser can translate as:

• shows
• is showing

Examples:

• Hun viser diamanten hver dag. = She shows the diamond every day.
• Se! Hun viser diamanten nå. = Look! She is showing the diamond now.

Context tells you which one is meant.

Because Norwegian usually puts the definite article at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word in front.

So:

• en diamant = a diamond
• diamanten = the diamond

The -en ending here is doing the job of English the.

This is one of the biggest differences from English.

Here, -en is the definite singular ending for a common gender noun.

So:

• diamant = diamond
• diamanten = the diamond

In Bokmål, many nouns are either:

• common gender (often with en in the indefinite)
• neuter gender (often with et in the indefinite)

Diamant is a common-gender noun:

• en diamant
• diamanten

You would say en diamant.

So the contrast is:

• Hun viser en diamant. = She shows a diamond.
• Hun viser diamanten. = She shows the diamond.

This is the basic indefinite/definite pattern:

• en diamant = a diamond
• diamanten = the diamond

Yes, in this sentence it is basically the same:

• Hun = subject
• viser = verb
• diamanten = object

So it follows subject–verb–object order, just like English:

• She shows the diamond.

But Norwegian also has the V2 rule, which means the verb must usually stay in the second position in main clauses.

For example:

• I dag viser hun diamanten. = Today she shows the diamond.

Here I dag comes first, so the verb viser still stays in second position, and hun moves after it.

Yes. Diamanten is the direct object.

It is the thing being shown.

So in:

• Hun = the one doing the showing
• viser = the action
• diamanten = the thing she shows

That makes diamanten the direct object.

In modern Bokmål, it is usually best to think of it as a common-gender noun.

That means you normally learn it as:

• en diamant
• diamanten

You may sometimes hear people talk about masculine and feminine, but in practice many Bokmål learners start by using the common gender + neuter system unless they are specifically studying feminine forms too.

Yes, you can. Vise fram or vise frem means something like show, display, or show off, depending on context.

So:

• Hun viser diamanten. = She shows the diamond.
• Hun viser fram diamanten. = She shows/displays the diamond.

The version without fram/frem is simpler and completely correct. Adding fram/frem can make it sound a bit more like physically presenting or displaying something.

A careful approximation is:

hoon VEE-ser dee-a-MAN-ten

A few notes:

• Hun sounds roughly like hoon, though the exact vowel is not exactly like English.
• viser has two syllables: VI-ser
• diamanten has four syllables: di-a-MAN-ten

The stress is usually on:

• VI in viser
• MAN in diamanten

If you want to sound more natural, listening to native audio is especially helpful for words like hun and diamanten, since Norwegian vowels are hard to capture perfectly in English spelling.

In normal modern Norwegian, hun means she.

The main thing to know is that Norwegian also has:

• han = he
• hun = she
• de = they

In some contexts, especially with animals or in older/literary language, pronouns can sometimes be used in ways that feel a bit different from English, but for a learner, hun = she is the right rule here.