Breakdown of De gjennomfører tiltaket.
Questions & Answers about De gjennomfører tiltaket.
In most modern Norwegian, de means they.
So De gjennomfører tiltaket is normally understood as They are carrying out the measure or They carry out the measure, depending on context.
One extra note: De can also be a very formal old-fashioned way of saying you, but in everyday Norwegian that is rare. Since this sentence starts with De, the capital letter does not by itself prove that it is the formal you—it may simply be capitalized because it is the first word in the sentence.
Because it is at the beginning of the sentence.
In Norwegian, just like in English, the first word of a sentence is capitalized. So De here does not necessarily mean the formal pronoun De. If the word appeared in the middle of a sentence, you would usually see de for they.
Gjennomfører is the present tense of the verb å gjennomføre.
That means it can translate into English in more than one way, depending on context:
- they carry out the measure
- they are carrying out the measure
- they implement the measure
Norwegian present tense often covers both the simple present and the present continuous meanings that English separates.