Artikkelen beskriver suksessen til laget.

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Breakdown of Artikkelen beskriver suksessen til laget.

• artikkelen: the article
• beskrive: to describe
• laget: the team

Questions & Answers about Artikkelen beskriver suksessen til laget.

What does Artikkelen mean, and why does it end in “-en”?

Artikkelen means the article. In Norwegian Bokmål you attach the definite article as a suffix. The bare noun is artikkel (an article), and artikkel + en = artikkelen (the article).

How do you say “an article” in Norwegian?

You say en artikkel. Here en is the indefinite article for common‐gender nouns (what used to be masculine/feminine), so “an article” = en artikkel.

What does beskriver mean, and how is it formed?

beskriver is the present‐tense form of beskrive (“to describe”). Norwegian forms the present simply by adding -r to the infinitive stem:
beskrive → beskriver
And it’s the same for all persons: jeg beskriver, du beskriver, hun beskriver, etc.

Why doesn’t beskriver change for third‐person singular like in English (“describes”)?

Norwegian verbs don’t inflect for person or number in present tense. You get one form (with -r) used with jeg, du, han, vi, dere, de.

What is suksessen, and why the “-en” ending?