Vårt hus er stort.

to be

Breakdown of Vårt hus er stort.

• stor: big
• huset: the house
• vårt: our

Questions & Answers about Vårt hus er stort.

Why is vårt used instead of vår?

In Norwegian, possessive pronouns agree in gender and number with the noun they modify. hus is a neuter noun, so the neuter form of vår (‘our’) is vårt. For common‐gender nouns you’d use vår (e.g. vår bil, vår bok), but with a neuter noun you add -t to get vårt (e.g. vårt hus).

Why is there no article like et before hus?

When you use a possessive pronoun (like vårt), you omit the indefinite article (en, ei, et) because the possessive pronoun already signals ownership. So instead of et hus (‘a house’) you simply say vårt hus (‘our house’).

Why does stor become stort in this sentence?

Adjectives in Norwegian must agree in gender and number with the noun they describe. The base form is stor (‘big’). For neuter singular nouns, you add -t, yielding stort. Since hus is neuter, its adjective form is stort. With common‐gender nouns it stays stor, and in the plural it becomes store.

Do possessive pronouns make a phrase definite, and how does that affect the adjective?