Pasienten får et anfall.

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Breakdown of Pasienten får et anfall.

• få: to get
• pasienten: the patient
• anfallet: the seizure

Questions & Answers about Pasienten får et anfall.

Why is it pasienten and not pasient?

Pasienten is the definite form of pasient, so it means the patient.

• en pasient = a patient
• pasienten = the patient

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually attached to the end of the noun rather than written as a separate word like English the.

What does får mean here?

Får is the present tense of the verb å få.

In this sentence, får means something like:

• gets
• has
• experiences

So Pasienten får et anfall can be understood as The patient has/gets a seizure/an attack depending on context.

Why is the verb in the second position?

Norwegian normally follows the V2 rule in main clauses, which means the finite verb usually comes in the second position.

Here the sentence is:

• Pasienten = first element
• får = finite verb in second position
• et anfall = rest of the sentence

This is very normal Norwegian word order.

Why is it et anfall and not en anfall?