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Frivilligsentralen organiserer dugnadsarbeid og får oss til å møtes oftere i hagen.
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The volunteer centre organizes community work and makes us meet more often in the garden.
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Questions & Answers about Frivilligsentralen organiserer dugnadsarbeid og får oss til å møtes oftere i hagen.
What exactly is Frivilligsentralen, and why is it written as one word with -en at the end?
Frivilligsentralen is a compound noun:
- frivillig = voluntary / volunteer
- sentral = center
→ frivilligsentral = volunteer center
The ending -en makes it definite singular: sentralen = the center.
So Frivilligsentralen means “the volunteer center”.
It’s written as one word because Norwegian usually writes compounds together:
- frivillig
- sentral → frivilligsentral
- then add -en → frivilligsentralen.
It’s capitalized here because it likely refers to a specific, named local institution (like The Volunteer Center in that community).
What does dugnadsarbeid mean, and how is it different from just saying dugnad?