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Neuter nouns with two or more syllables behave like the example below [which we can call neuter 2]:
et maleri maleriet malerier maleriene
a painting the painting paintings the paintings
single indefinite single definite plural indefinite plural definite
et et er ene
As you can see, it behaves just like the masculine nouns in the plural.
FEMININE NOUNS
ei seng senga senger sengene
a bed the bed beds the beds
ei L La Ler Lene
Many feminine nouns that end In -e lose the -e and get an -a in the definite, e.g. ei lampe - lampa.
Feminine nouns are exactly the same in plural as the masculine ones. Rather confusingly for the foreign learner,
Norwegian nouns can have different genders according to where you live (or what social class you belong to). For
example, some people would say “sengen” [treating ‘bed’ as a masculine noun] instead of “senga”, [a feminine
noun] and some consider the former to be more conservative, but it is also the case that in Bergen there are only
two genders of nouns (!), masculine and neuter, so any noun that might be feminine elsewhere is used as a
masculine in Bergen. (This works fine if you’re Norwegian, but when you are trying to learn these nouns as a
beginner...!)
En gutt (a boy)
What would the 4 different versions of the following nouns be:
Remember that there are two kinds of neuter nouns
En radio (a radio)
En datamaskin (a computer)
En penn (a pen)
There are a number of irregular nouns too:
Et kapittel (a chapter)
Et modem (a modem)
Et fall (a fall)
Et fly (an aeroplane)
En bok boken bøker bøkene
En bror broren brødre brødrene
En far faren fedre fedrene
En mor moren mødre mødrene
…
Ei dame (a lady)
Ei sti (a path)
Ei dør (a door)