Den tredje bussen kommer.

The third bus is coming.

Breakdown of Den tredje bussen kommer.

• komme: to come
• bussen: the bus
• den: the
• tredje: third

Questions & Answers about Den tredje bussen kommer.

Why is it den tredje bussen and not just tredje buss?

Because Norwegian usually uses double definiteness when a noun is definite and has an adjective or ordinal in front of it.

So:

• buss = bus
• bussen = the bus
• den tredje bussen = the third bus

You need:

• den before the adjective/ordinal
• the definite ending -en on the noun

This is normal in Norwegian.
If there were no adjective or ordinal, you would usually just say bussen.

Why is it den and not det?

Because buss is a masculine noun in Bokmål.

The definite markers are:

• den for masculine and feminine singular nouns
• det for neuter singular nouns
• de for plural

So:

• den tredje bussen = the third bus
• det tredje huset = the third house

Since buss takes -en in the definite singular (bussen), it goes with den.

What kind of word is tredje?