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Irregular Nouns Norwegian

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

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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