Breakdown of Hun stopper barnevognen utenfor kafeen.
Questions & Answers about Hun stopper barnevognen utenfor kafeen.
The verb stopper is the present tense, 3rd person singular form of stoppe (“to stop”). In Norwegian Bokmål present tense is formed by adding -r to the infinitive stem:
jeg stopper, du stopper, han/hun stopper, vi stopper, dere stopper, de stopper.
Barnevognen means the stroller or the pram. Norwegian uses a suffix for the definite article:
• Indefinite: en barnevogn = a stroller
• Definite: barnevognen = the stroller (common‐gender nouns add -en).
Utenfor means outside or outside of. You simply place it before a noun phrase (indefinite or definite), for example:
• utenfor kafeen = outside the café
• utenfor en kafe = outside a café
Norwegian main clauses follow the V2 (verb‐second) rule: the finite verb must be in the second position. In this sentence:
1st: Hun (subject)
2nd: stopper (verb)
after: object barnevognen, then adverbial utenfor kafeen.