Blodet er rødt.

The ending -et is the definite article attached to the noun. The base noun is blod.

So:

• blod = blood
• blodet = the blood

In Norwegian, the definite article is often added to the end of the noun instead of being a separate word like English the.

Also, with words for substances like blood, Norwegian does not always match English article usage exactly, so blodet can sound natural even when English would simply say blood.

Blod is a neuter noun.

That matters because neuter nouns affect both:

• the definite ending: -et → blodet
• the adjective form: rødt

If you needed the indefinite article, it would be et: et blod. In practice, though, blod is usually treated as a mass noun, so the article is often omitted.

Because rød changes form to agree with the noun it describes, and blod is neuter.

The forms are:

• rød for common gender singular
• rødt for neuter singular
• røde for plural

So:

• En bil er rød = A car is red
• Et hus er rødt = A house is red
• Bilene er røde = The cars are red

Since blod is neuter, Norwegian uses rødt.

Yes. That is an important difference from English.

In English, the adjective stays the same:

• The car is red
• The house is red

But in Norwegian, the adjective still agrees with the noun even after er:

• Bilen er rød
• Huset er rødt

So in Blodet er rødt, the adjective changes because the subject noun is neuter.

Er is the present tense of å være, which means to be.

Unlike English, Norwegian does not change this form depending on the subject:

• jeg er = I am
• du er = you are
• han er = he is
• vi er = we are

So er works for all persons and numbers in the present tense.

Yes, you can, depending on context.

Both Blod er rødt and Blodet er rødt are possible, but they can feel slightly different:

• Blod er rødt can sound more general or scientific
• Blodet er rødt can sound more like talking about blood as a known substance, or about specific blood in context

This is one of those cases where Norwegian and English do not line up perfectly with article use. So if you are wondering why Norwegian uses blodet where English often just says blood, that is a very normal thing to notice.

The dictionary form is rød.

When you look up adjectives in Norwegian dictionaries, you usually find the basic form, not every changed form. So you would look up:

• rød

and then learn its other forms:

• rød
• rødt
• røde

A rough guide is:

• Blodet ≈ BLOO-deh
• er ≈ air or a lighter ehr, depending on accent
• rødt has a vowel English does not really have

The hardest part is ø in rødt. To make ø, round your lips as if saying oo, but place your tongue more forward, somewhat closer to a vowel like the one in bird for many English speakers. There is no perfect English equivalent.

Also, in many pronunciations, the d in rødt is not heard as a strong separate d.

No, this is the normal basic order for a simple statement:

subject + verb + adjective

So:

• Blodet = subject
• er = verb
• rødt = adjective

This is similar to English word order in this sentence.

If you turned it into a yes/no question, Norwegian would move the verb first:

• Er blodet rødt? = Is the blood red?

In Norwegian, nouns are not capitalized the way they are in German.

So blodet is lowercase normally. It has a capital B here only because it is the first word of the sentence.

That means:

• blodet er rødt = same words, but not standard sentence capitalization
• Blodet er rødt. = normal sentence writing