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    Adjectives Norsk

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    Adjectives in Norwegian have three forms - the base form, the form ending in "T", and the form ending in "E". The appropriate form depends on the definiteness and gender of the noun as well as whether it is singular or plural. For indefinite nouns, the base form is used for masculine and feminine nouns, while the "T" form is used for neuter nouns. For definite nouns and plurals, the "E" form is used regardless of gender. There are some irregular adjectives as well as exceptions to the rules.

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    Adjectives in Norwegian have three forms - the base form, the form ending in "T", and the form ending in "E". The appropriate form depends on the definiteness and gender of the noun as well as whether it is singular or plural. For indefinite nouns, the base form is used for masculine and feminine nouns, while the "T" form is used for neuter nouns. For definite nouns and plurals, the "E" form is used regardless of gender. There are some irregular adjectives as well as exceptions to the rules.

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    Adjectives in Norwegian have three forms - the base form, the form ending in "T", and the form ending in "E". The appropriate form depends on the definiteness and gender of the noun as well as whether it is singular or plural. For indefinite nouns, the base form is used for masculine and feminine nouns, while the "T" form is used for neuter nouns. For definite nouns and plurals, the "E" form is used regardless of gender. There are some irregular adjectives as well as exceptions to the rules.

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    Adjectives in Norwegian have three forms - the base form, the form ending in "T", and the form ending in "E". The appropriate form depends on the definiteness and gender of the noun as well as whether it is singular or plural. For indefinite nouns, the base form is used for masculine and feminine nouns, while the "T" form is used for neuter nouns. For definite nouns and plurals, the "E" form is used regardless of gender. There are some irregular adjectives as well as exceptions to the rules.

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    Adjectives (all regular ones have 3 forms – the base form, the one with T, and the one

    with E)
    pen, pent, pene / fin, fint, fine / god, godt, gode ..

    ● Indefinite form
    1. when the adjective is used as an attribute with the indefinite form of nouns(before the
    noun – a red car – en rød bil)

    2. predicatively(after the verb å være/bli – the car is red– Bilen er rød)

    The base form of the adjective is used with –en and –ei nouns:

    en fin dag Dagen er fin


    en rød bil Bilen er rød
    ei god bok Boka er god

    We add T for –et nouns

    et finT hus Huset er finT


    et rødt skjerf Skjerfet er rødT
    et godT tilbud Tilbudet er godT

    We add E for plural

    finE dager, finE hus Husene er finE


    godE bøker Bøkene er godE
    rødE biler Bilene er rødE

    ● Definite form ( we also add E for this form, whichever gender and for singular and plural)

    (as an attribute with the definite form of nouns – in this case we also need to use the definite
    article before the adjective(den / det / de):

    Indefinite form Definite form


    en rød bil den røde bilen
    et fint hus det fine huset
    røde bøker de røde bøkene
    Exceptions:

    1. short adjectives that end in a vowel – get –tt


    fri fritt frie (free)
    ny nytt nye (new)

    (some of them like blå, grå don’t get e for plural and def.form)

    2. ending in double consonant – lose one when added -t

    grønn grønt grønne (green)


    trygg trygt trygge (safe)
    sunn sunt sunne (healthy)

    *but some of them keep it:


    full fullt fulle (full)
    viss visst visse (certain)

    3. ending in –m – get another m in plural and defin.form

    tom tomt tomme (empty)


    dum dumt dumme (dumb)

    4. adjectives that end in -en, -el, -er - lose this e when added an e to the end of the adj for plural
    and definite form.

    sulten sultent sultne (hungry)


    gammel gammelt gamle (old)
    vakker vakkert vakre (beautiful)

    * also if it was a double consonant, we lose one

    5. all ending in -ig, and some in -sk, -t , -d


    don’t get t for neuter form

    vanlig vanlige (usual)


    viktig viktige (important)
    norsk, norske
    fantastisk, fantastiske
    (all adj. with more then one syllable that end in –sk, and –sk adjectives that derive from a name of a
    country)

    kort, korte (short)


    glad, glade (happy)
    fremmed, fremmede (foreign)
    redd, redde (scared)

    exceptions:
    fersk, t, e fresh
    frisk, t, e healty,fresh
    falsk, t,e false
    (all one syllable adjectives that don’t derive from a name of a country )

    rask,raskt, raske qucik


    hvit, hvitt, hvite white
    søt, søtt, søte sweet

    don’t change at all:

    stille (quiet), moderne (all ending in e), levende, spennende (all endin in -ende), rosa, lilla, stakkars,
    gratis, beige, oransje, slu(sly), sjalu(jealous), tro(true), sky(shy) ..... etc.

    LITEN (irregular!)

    en liten gutt den lille gutten små gutter de små guttene


    ei lita jente den lille jenta små jenter de små jentene
    et lite barn det lille barnet små barn de små barna

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