Kvinnen får komplimentet.

In Norwegian, definiteness is often built into the noun itself by adding an ending.

• kvinne = woman
• kvinnen = the woman

The ending -n here marks the noun as definite. This is very common in Norwegian.

Just like kvinnen, komplimentet has a definite ending.

• et kompliment = a compliment
• komplimentet = the compliment

The noun kompliment is a neuter noun, so its definite singular ending is -et.

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun instead of appearing as a separate word in front.

So:

• English: the woman

• Norwegian: kvinnen

• English: the compliment
• Norwegian: komplimentet

A separate word like den/det can appear in some other structures, especially when an adjective is included, for example:

• den snille kvinnen = the kind woman

But in your sentence, no separate article is needed.

Får is the present tense of å få, which often means:

• to get
• to receive

So Kvinnen får komplimentet means The woman gets/receives the compliment.

Depending on context, å få can also have other meanings, such as be allowed to or come to, but here it clearly means receive.

Norwegian usually follows a verb-second pattern in main clauses. That means the finite verb normally comes in position 2.

In this sentence:

• Kvinnen = subject
• får = verb
• komplimentet = object

So the order is:

Subject + Verb + Object

This is the normal pattern in a simple statement.

That would sound unusual in most contexts and could be confusing. The normal sentence is:

Kvinnen får komplimentet.

Norwegian word order is flexible in some cases, but because Norwegian does not use case endings like German, word order is important for showing who does what.

If you move komplimentet to the front, you would normally still keep the verb second:

Komplimentet får kvinnen.

But this sounds marked and unnatural unless the context strongly supports that emphasis. Most learners should stick with the normal order.

Yes.

• Kvinnen is the subject: the person doing or receiving the action from the verb’s point of view
• komplimentet is the direct object: the thing being received

So the structure is:

• Kvinnen = subject
• får = verb
• komplimentet = direct object

The indefinite version would be:

En kvinne får et kompliment.

That means A woman gets a compliment.

Compare:

• En kvinne = a woman

• Kvinnen = the woman

• Et kompliment = a compliment
• Komplimentet = the compliment

• kvinne is a feminine noun, though in Bokmål many feminine nouns can also be treated as masculine in some styles
• kompliment is a neuter noun

That is why you get:

• kvinne → kvinnen
• kompliment → komplimentet

For beginners, it is useful to memorize nouns together with their article:

• ei/en kvinne
• et kompliment

Yes. In Bokmål, many feminine nouns can be treated either as feminine or as masculine.

So you may see:

• ei kvinne / kvinna in some styles and dialect-influenced writing
• en kvinne / kvinnen in very common Bokmål usage

In your sentence, kvinnen is completely standard and very common.

A careful approximation is:

KVIN-nen for kom-pli-MEN-tet

A few notes:

• kv in kvinnen is pronounced with both sounds, roughly like kv in quick voice said separately
• å in får is a long vowel, somewhat like the vowel in British law
• r pronunciation varies by dialect
• komplimentet has the main stress on men

Pronunciation varies across Norway, so exact sound details depend on dialect.

Because this is a complete present-tense sentence, Norwegian uses the conjugated verb form:

• å få = to get/to receive (infinitive)
• får = get/gets, receive/receives (present tense)

So:

• å få komplimentet = to get the compliment
• Kvinnen får komplimentet = The woman gets the compliment

Yes, it is grammatically natural. It is a simple, clear sentence.

That said, in real conversation, Norwegians might often use a slightly more idiomatic phrase depending on context, such as:

• Kvinnen får et kompliment. = The woman receives a compliment
• Kvinnen får en kompliment. is not standard, because kompliment is neuter, so it should be et kompliment

Your original sentence is perfectly correct if you mean a specific compliment: the compliment.