Breakdown of Brukeren skriver en kommentar i kommentarfeltet.
en
a
i
in
skrive
to write
kommentaren
the comment
Questions & Answers about Brukeren skriver en kommentar i kommentarfeltet.
Why is it brukeren and not just bruker?
Norwegian often shows “the” by adding an ending to the noun instead of putting a separate word in front of it.
- bruker = user
- bruker + en → brukeren = the user
-en is the common-gender definite ending (for words that take en in the indefinite form).
So Brukeren skriver … = The user writes …
If you said Bruker skriver …, it would sound incomplete or wrong, because you’d be saying something like “User writes …” without the or a.
Does skriver mean “writes” or “is writing”?
It can mean both. Norwegian doesn’t have a separate continuous tense like English.
- Brukeren skriver en kommentar
= The user writes a comment
= The user is writing a comment
The exact English translation (simple or continuous) depends on context, but in Norwegian you just use skriver for both.
Why do we say en kommentar and not kommentaren?