Questions & Answers about Tabellen har tre kolonner og fire rader med ulike verb.
Norwegian usually puts the at the end of the noun instead of using a separate word.
- tabell = a table (indefinite singular)
- tabellen = the table (definite singular)
So Tabellen har … literally means The table has …. The capital T is only because it’s the first word of the sentence; Norwegian does not normally capitalize all nouns like German does.
har means has / have, while er means is / are.
In this sentence we are talking about what the table possesses:
- Tabellen har tre kolonner = The table has three columns.
If you used er, you would say something like:
- Tabellen er stor = The table is big.
So use har for ownership/contents, and er for descriptions.