Questions & Answers about Tusen er mer enn hundre.
Why is it tusen and not ett tusen here?
In Norwegian, tusen by itself is very commonly used for one thousand when you are talking about numbers in a general way.
So:
- Tusen er mer enn hundre. = A thousand is more than a hundred.
You can sometimes hear ett tusen, especially when someone is being extra precise, counting, or contrasting numbers, but in a simple statement like this, tusen sounds the most natural.
The same idea often applies to hundre as well:
- hundre = a hundred / one hundred
What does er mean here?
Er is the present tense of å være, which means to be.
So here:
- tusen er mer enn hundre literally means
- thousand is more than hundred
In natural English, we add articles:
- A thousand is more than a hundred.
So er works just like is / are / am depending on context, but the form er stays the same for all persons in the present tense:
- jeg er = I am
- du er = you are
- han er = he is
What does mer enn mean?