Questions & Answers about Barna liker å gå på ski om vinteren.
Why is it barna and not barn or barnene?
Barn is a neuter noun that is a bit irregular:
- et barn = a child
- barnet = the child
- barn = children (no article, indefinite plural)
- barna / barnene = the children (definite plural)
In this sentence, barna means “the children”.
Both barna and barnene are grammatically correct forms of “the children” in Bokmål, but barna is more common and sounds more natural in everyday language.
We don’t use just barn here because that would mean simply “children”, not “the children” as a specific or generic group.
Why do we say liker å gå and not liker gå?