En frisk blomst på bordet forbedrer helsen, sier legen.

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Breakdown of En frisk blomst på bordet forbedrer helsen, sier legen.

• på: on
• bordet: the table
• si: to say

Questions & Answers about En frisk blomst på bordet forbedrer helsen, sier legen.

Why is blomst preceded by en instead of et?

blomst is a common-gender noun in Bokmål, so it takes the indefinite article en (equivalent to English “a”/“an”). Neuter nouns (like et hus) would use et.

Why doesn’t frisk have an ending like -t or -e?

Norwegian adjectives follow weak vs. strong declension patterns. Here frisk modifies an indefinite singular common-gender noun (en blomst), so it takes the weak form with no ending.
• If it were neuter: et friskt eple (adds -t).
• If it were definite or plural: de friske blomstene (adds -e).

Why is the table written as bordet rather than et bord?

bordet is the definite singular form of bord (“table”), marked by the suffix -et (“the table”). You’d use på et bord (“on a table”) if you meant any table; på bordet implies a specific or already known table.

Why do we use på for “on the table” and not i?