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    Irregular Nouns Norwegian

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    Irregular nouns in Norwegian can be divided into several categories: 1) Nouns ending in -el or -er drop the e when adding endings, like ankle (ankel) and winter (vinter). 2) Nouns ending in -er denoting occupation or nationality have special plural forms, like baker (baker) and amerikaner (American). 3) There are some nouns ending in -en that lack endings in the indefinite plural form, like ting (thing) and feil (mistake). 4) Many nouns have irregular plural forms involving vowel changes or unusual endings, like mor (mother), far (father), and bok (book

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    Irregular nouns in Norwegian can be divided into several categories: 1) Nouns ending in -el or -er drop the e when adding endings, like ankle (ankel) and winter (vinter). 2) Nouns ending in -er denoting occupation or nationality have special plural forms, like baker (baker) and amerikaner (American). 3) There are some nouns ending in -en that lack endings in the indefinite plural form, like ting (thing) and feil (mistake). 4) Many nouns have irregular plural forms involving vowel changes or unusual endings, like mor (mother), far (father), and bok (book

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    Irregular nouns in Norwegian can be divided into several categories: 1) Nouns ending in -el or -er drop the e when adding endings, like ankle (ankel) and winter (vinter). 2) Nouns ending in -er denoting occupation or nationality have special plural forms, like baker (baker) and amerikaner (American). 3) There are some nouns ending in -en that lack endings in the indefinite plural form, like ting (thing) and feil (mistake). 4) Many nouns have irregular plural forms involving vowel changes or unusual endings, like mor (mother), far (father), and bok (book

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    Irregular Nouns Norwegian

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    Irregular nouns in Norwegian can be divided into several categories: 1) Nouns ending in -el or -er drop the e when adding endings, like ankle (ankel) and winter (vinter). 2) Nouns ending in -er denoting occupation or nationality have special plural forms, like baker (baker) and amerikaner (American). 3) There are some nouns ending in -en that lack endings in the indefinite plural form, like ting (thing) and feil (mistake). 4) Many nouns have irregular plural forms involving vowel changes or unusual endings, like mor (mother), far (father), and bok (book

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    Irregular nouns

    *the general rule is that nouns ending in –el / -er drop the –e when adding endings

    -el en ankel - ankelen - ankler – anklene (ankle)


    -er en vinter - vinteren - vintrer – vintrene (winter)

    *nouns ending in -er that denote occupation, nationality etc. have special plural
    forms
    en baker - bakeren - bakere – bakerne
    en amerikaner - amerikaneren - amerikanere – amerikanerne

    but also:
    (a sweater) en genser - genseren - gensere - genserne

    * there are some –en nouns that lack endings in indefinite plural form, like:
    en ting(a thing), en feil(a mistake), en ski (a ski), en sko (a shoe)
    en ting – tingen – ting – tingene

    * there are also nouns that have other types of irregularities in plural forms - those
    are in most cases vowel changes, or some anoumalous endings

    ei/en mor (mother) - mora/moren - mødre - mødrene


    en far (father) - faren - fedre - fedrene
    en bror (brother) - broren - brødre - brødrene
    ei/en søster (sister) - søstera/søsteren - søstre - søstrene
    ei/en datter (daughter) - dattera/datteren - døtre - døtrene
    ei/en tann (tooth) - tanna/tannen - tenner - tennene
    ei/en natt (night) - natta/natten - netter - nettene
    ei/en hånd (hand) - hånda/hånden - hender - hendene
    ei/en strand (beach) - stranda/stranden - strender - strendene
    ei/en stang (stick) - stanga/stangen - stenger - stengene
    ei/en bok (book) - boka/boken - bøker - bøkene
    ei/en fot (foot) - fota/foten - føtter - føttene
    ei/en rot (root) - rota/roten - røtter - røttene
    en mann (man) - mannen - menn - mennene
    ei/en ku (cow) - kua/kuen - куr - куrne
    ei/en gås (goose) - gåsa/gåsen - gjess - gjessene
    et tre (tree) - treet - trær - trærne
    et kne (knee) - kneet - knær - knærne
    et øye (eye) -øyet -øyne -øynene
    et teater (theatre) - teat(e)ret - teatre - teatrene
    (clothes) (no plural!) - klær - klærne
    (siblings) - søsken -søsknene
    (money) -penger -pengene

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