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Learn Hardcore Norwegian: Hun er avslappet etter møtet. - She is relaxed after the meeting.

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/Hun er avslappet etter møtet.

Hun er avslappet etter møtet.

Word

Hun er avslappet etter møtet.

Meaning

She is relaxed after the meeting.

Part of speech

sentence

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore Norwegian

Lesson

Joining friends for a knitting evening

Breakdown of Hun er avslappet etter møtet.

Questions & Answers about Hun er avslappet etter møtet.

What does hun mean, and when is it used?

Hun means she. It is the third-person singular pronoun used for a female person or animal.

So in this sentence, hun is the subject: the person the sentence is talking about.

Why is er used here?

Er is the present tense of å være (to be).

The sentence is describing someone's current state, so Norwegian uses er + adjective:

Hun er avslappet = She is relaxed

This works very much like English is relaxed.

Is avslappet an adjective or a verb form?

Here, avslappet functions as an adjective. It describes how hun is.

It is related to å slappe av (to relax), so you may notice it looks a bit like a participle, but in this sentence you can treat it simply as an adjective meaning relaxed.

Why doesn’t avslappet change to match hun?

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Norwegian adjectives often change form depending on gender and number, but avslappet is one of those adjectives whose singular form stays the same here.

So you say:

Hun er avslappet
Han er avslappet

In plural or some definite contexts, you often get avslappede instead:

De er avslappede

So the lack of change here is normal.

Could I also say Hun føler seg avslappet?

Yes. Hun føler seg avslappet means She feels relaxed.

The difference is:

Hun er avslappet = a simple statement about her state
Hun føler seg avslappet = puts more focus on how she feels internally

In many everyday situations, Hun er avslappet is the more straightforward phrasing.

What does etter mean here?

Etter is a preposition meaning after.

It introduces the time phrase:

etter møtet = after the meeting

So it tells you when she is relaxed.

Why is it møtet and not et møte?

Because møtet means the meeting, while et møte means a meeting.

In Norwegian, the definite article is usually added to the end of the noun:

et møte = a meeting
møtet = the meeting

So etter møtet means after the meeting, not just after a meeting.

Why isn’t there a separate word for the?

Norwegian usually does not use a separate word like English the in simple definite nouns. Instead, definiteness is built into the noun itself.

So:

møte = meeting
møtet = the meeting

That -et ending is doing the job that the does in English.

What gender is møte, and why does that matter?

Møte is a neuter noun, so its indefinite form is:

et møte

Because it is neuter, the definite singular form becomes:

møtet

If it were a common-gender noun, it would usually take en in the indefinite form and -en in the definite form.

What is the word order in this sentence?

The basic order is:

Hun = subject
er = verb
avslappet = adjective/complement
etter møtet = time phrase

So the pattern is:

Subject + verb + description + time phrase

This is very similar to English word order in a simple statement.

Can etter møtet go at the beginning of the sentence?

Yes. You can say:

Etter møtet er hun avslappet.

That still means the same thing.

This is useful because Norwegian often allows a time phrase to come first. But when that happens, the verb still stays in second position, which is an important Norwegian word-order rule.

Why is there no article before avslappet?

Because avslappet is an adjective used after er, not a noun.

So you say:

Hun er avslappet

Not:

Hun er en avslappet

If you add a noun, then an article is possible:

Hun er en avslappet person = She is a relaxed person

So the article would belong to the noun person, not to avslappet by itself.

How would I say this in the past tense?

You change er to var:

Hun var avslappet etter møtet.

So:

er = is
var = was

Everything else stays the same.

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