Breakdown of Han setter en pute i skuffen for å spare plass.
Questions & Answers about Han setter en pute i skuffen for å spare plass.
Setter is the present tense of å sette (to set or to put). Conjugation:
• Present: jeg setter, du setter, han/hun setter
• Past: jeg satte, du satte, han/hun satte
• Past participle: har satt
In the example han setter simply means he puts or he sets.
To express purpose (in order to) in Norwegian, you use for å + infinitive of the verb:
for å spare plass = in order to save space.
You must include å before the verb; you cannot say for spare plass.
In Norwegian you generally don’t put a comma before a purpose clause. You write it as one sentence:
Han setter en pute i skuffen for å spare plass.
If you front the purpose clause, you can optionally add a comma after it:
For å spare plass, setter han en pute i skuffen.
Replace the present tense setter with the past tense satte: Han satte en pute i skuffen for å spare plass.