Breakdown of Læreren deler ut frukt til barna etter timen.
Questions & Answers about Læreren deler ut frukt til barna etter timen.
Deler ut is the Norwegian equivalent of “to hand out” or “to distribute.” It’s a so-called two‐word verb (sometimes called a particle verb) consisting of the verb dele (“to share”) plus the particle ut (“out”). In a simple sentence like this they stay together:
Læreren deler ut frukt…
But if you replace the object with a pronoun, you split them:
Læreren deler dem ut.
The ending –en is the definite article attached to the noun in Norwegian Bokmål.
lærer = “a teacher” (indefinite)
læreren = “the teacher” (definite)