Wifi-passordet står i velkomsthilsenen.

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Breakdown of Wifi-passordet står i velkomsthilsenen.

• stå: to say (in writing)
• wifi-passordet: the wifi password
• velkomsthilsenen: the welcome message

Questions & Answers about Wifi-passordet står i velkomsthilsenen.

Why does står mean is here? Doesn’t stå literally mean to stand?

Yes, stå literally means to stand, but in Norwegian it is also very commonly used for text or information that is written somewhere.

So Wifi-passordet står i velkomsthilsenen means something like:

• The wifi password is written in the welcome message
• The wifi password appears in the welcome message

This is very natural Norwegian. English usually uses is or is written, while Norwegian often uses står.

Why is wifi-passordet written as one unit?

Norwegian very often makes compound nouns, where English would use two separate words.

So:

• wifi + passord = wifi-passord
• wifi-passordet = the wifi password

The hyphen is helpful here because wifi is a borrowed word. In Norwegian, compounds are normally written together, and a hyphen is often used when the first part is an abbreviation, letter, number, or foreign-looking element.

What does the ending -et in wifi-passordet mean?