Færre personer kommer til møtet.

Because færre is used with countable nouns, and personer is countable.

• færre personer = fewer people
• mindre tid = less time

A useful contrast is:

• få → færre = few → fewer
• lite/liten → mindre = little/small → less/smaller

So in this sentence, færre is the correct comparative form.

Færre is a comparative form. It means fewer.

It is related to the idea of few:

• få personer = few people
• færre personer = fewer people

It compares the number of people with some other number, even if that comparison is not stated explicitly. For example, it could mean fewer than before, fewer than expected, or fewer than in another group.

In Norwegian, indefinite plural nouns usually do not take an article.

So:

• en person = a person
• personer = people / persons

That is why færre personer is correct, not something like færre en personer.

This is similar to English, where we also say fewer people, not fewer a people.

Both can refer to people, but they are used a bit differently.

• personer is the regular plural of person
• folk is a collective noun meaning people in a more general sense

So both of these are possible in many contexts:

• Færre personer kommer til møtet.
• Færre folk kommer til møtet.

Personer often sounds a little more neutral, formal, or countable.
Folk often sounds more everyday and collective.

In this sentence, personer fits very naturally.

Here, kommer til means come to in the physical or event-related sense.

• komme til møtet = come to the meeting

It is not the same as the future construction kommer til å, which means going to:

• De kommer til møtet = They are coming to the meeting
• De kommer til å dra = They are going to leave

So in your sentence, til belongs with møtet, not with the verb in a future expression.

Møtet is the definite form of møte:

• et møte = a meeting
• møtet = the meeting

So til møtet means to the meeting, referring to a specific meeting that both speaker and listener know about.

If you said til et møte, that would mean to a meeting, which is less specific.

Kommer is the present tense of komme.

• å komme = to come
• kommer = come / is coming / are coming

In Norwegian, the present tense is often used for both:

• things happening now
• planned or expected future events

So this sentence can mean something like:

• fewer people are coming to the meeting
• fewer people will come to the meeting

The exact time sense depends on context.

This is the normal word order for a simple main clause in Norwegian:

subject + verb + other elements

Here:

• Færre personer = subject
• kommer = verb
• til møtet = prepositional phrase

So the sentence structure is very straightforward.

Also, Norwegian is a V2 language, meaning the finite verb usually comes in the second position in main clauses. Since the subject comes first here, the verb naturally comes right after it.

Yes. If the context is clear, you can leave out the noun.

For example:

• Færre kommer til møtet. = Fewer are coming to the meeting.

That sounds completely natural if everyone already knows you are talking about people.
Including personer makes it more explicit.

Til is used because it expresses movement or direction toward the meeting.

• komme til møtet = come to the meeting

Compare that with:

• være på møtet = be at the meeting

So a useful distinction is:

• komme til = arrive/come to
• være på = be at

In other words:

• You come to the meeting.
• Then you are at the meeting.

Not always. English people can correspond to several Norwegian words depending on context:

• personer = persons/people as countable individuals
• folk = people in a general or collective sense
• mennesker = human beings

In this sentence, personer is natural because the speaker is talking about the number of attendees as countable individuals.

You would usually place ikke after the verb in a main clause:

• Færre personer kommer ikke til møtet.

However, this sentence can sound a bit awkward or unclear, because færre already involves comparison. In real usage, people often prefer clearer alternatives, such as:

• Det kommer ikke færre personer til møtet. = Fewer people are not coming to the meeting / It is not the case that fewer people are coming to the meeting.
• Ikke færre personer kommer til møtet, men flere. = Not fewer people are coming, but more.

So yes, the normal negation position is after the verb, but with færre, you often need to think carefully about what exactly you want to negate.