Kommentaren var ironisk.

to be

Breakdown of Kommentaren var ironisk.

• kommentaren: the comment
• ironisk: ironic

Questions & Answers about Kommentaren var ironisk.

Why does kommentaren end in -en?

Because Norwegian often puts the definite article onto the end of the noun.

• en kommentar = a comment
• kommentaren = the comment

So -en here is the definite ending.

Why is there no separate word for the in the sentence?

In Norwegian, you usually do not use a separate word for the the way you do in English. Instead, the noun itself gets a definite ending.

So:

• kommentar = comment
• en kommentar = a comment
• kommentaren = the comment

That is why Kommentaren var ironisk already includes the idea of the comment without needing a separate article.

What form is var?