Breakdown of Brennstoffet og solcellen kontrolleres.
og
and
kontrollere
to check
brennstoffet
the cooking fuel
solcellen
the solar cell
Questions & Answers about Brennstoffet og solcellen kontrolleres.
Why do brennstoffet and solcellen end in -et and -en?
Those endings mark the nouns as definite, so they mean the fuel and the solar cell.
The dictionary forms are:
- et brennstoff = a fuel
- en solcelle = a solar cell
When they become definite, Norwegian usually adds the definiteness to the end of the noun:
- brennstoff → brennstoffet = the fuel
- solcelle → solcellen = the solar cell
The different endings come from the gender of the noun:
- et-words often take -et in the definite singular
- en-words often take -en in the definite singular
So the endings are doing the job that the does in English.
Why is there no separate word for the in this sentence?
Because Norwegian usually puts the onto the noun itself instead of using a separate article.
So instead of saying something like the fuel, Norwegian normally says:
- brennstoffet
And instead of the solar cell, it says:
- solcellen
This is completely normal in Norwegian. English uses a separate article before the noun; Norwegian often uses a suffix after the noun.
A useful comparison:
- en bil = a car
- bilen = the car
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