Breakdown of Beinet gjør vondt hele dagen, men hun går likevel på skolen.
Questions & Answers about Beinet gjør vondt hele dagen, men hun går likevel på skolen.
Bein is the indefinite form (a leg / a bone).
Beinet is the definite form (the leg / the bone).
Norwegian usually uses the definite form when both speaker and listener know which body part is meant (often the person’s own leg), so beinet is natural here.
Spelling note: you may also see benet; both bein and ben are accepted forms.
Literally, bein can mean both bone and leg, depending on context.
In everyday speech, when talking about pain and walking/going to school, beinet will normally be understood as the leg rather than the bone.
If you specifically meant “bone” in a medical context, you’d usually make that clear from the context or add more detail.
The fixed expression for “hurts” in Norwegian is å gjøre vondt (“to do hurt” / “to cause pain”), not å være vondt.
So you say Beinet gjør vondt = “The leg hurts”, or Det gjør vondt = “It hurts”.
Using er vondt would sound wrong in this meaning; er vond is used more like “is evil/bad” in character or moral sense.