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Questions & Answers about Bussen kommer om en time.
What does om mean in om en time in this sentence?
In temporal expressions, om means “in” as in “after a period of time.” So om en time translates to “in an hour.”
Why is the present‐tense verb kommer used to refer to a future event?
Norwegian often uses the present tense to talk about future actions when there’s a time adverbial. Here, kommer + om en time indicates that the bus will arrive one hour from now.
What is the grammatical gender of buss, and how do you form its definite singular?
buss is a common‐gender noun (indefinite article en). To form the definite singular, you add the suffix -en, giving bussen (“the bus”).
Why is en time indefinite rather than definite (not timen)?
You’re not referring to a specific hour you’ve already identified—just “an hour” in general. The indefinite article en signals that.
How do you say “in two hours” in Norwegian?
After the number two (and higher), you pluralize time to timer. So “in two hours” is om to timer.
What is the word order in Bussen kommer om en time, and can it change?
The default is Subject–Verb–Adverbial: Bussen (S) kommer (V) om en time (time adverbial). You can front the time phrase—Om en time kommer bussen—but then you invert subject and verb (the V2 rule).
Could you replace om en time with other time expressions?
Yes. For example:
• om et kvarter (“in a quarter of an hour”)
• om to dager (“in two days”)
• i morgen klokka ni (“tomorrow at nine o’clock”), noting that i is used before named days.