Breakdown of Bøkene faller av bordet når vinden er sterk.
Questions & Answers about Bøkene faller av bordet når vinden er sterk.
In Norwegian Bokmål the definite article is not a separate word but a suffix attached to the noun. The ending you use depends on gender (masculine/feminine/neuter) and number (singular/plural):
• bøker (indefinite plural “books”) → bøkene (definite plural “the books”)
• et bord (indefinite singular neuter “a table”) → bordet (definite singular “the table”)
So whenever you see -en, -et or -ene at the end of a noun, it’s signalling “the.”
av is the preposition that, together with faller, creates the meaning “fall off.”
- falle alone just means “to fall.”
- falle av specifically means “to fall off.”
If you drop av, you lose the “off” part of the meaning. You cannot replace it with på (which means “on”) without reversing the sense. Colloquially you might hear ramle av or blåse av, but av remains the same core preposition for “off.”