"The boy's sandwich"

Translation: Guttens smørbrød

[Rich.Smith]

Til? Where the heck did "til" come from?

[Deliciae]

We may never know.

Ways of forming the possessive in Norwegian:

"guttens smørbrød" (genitive -s added as a suffix; neutral, suitable for all occasions.)

"smørbrødet til gutten" (prepositional structure akin to "the sandwich of the boy" in English; less used than the above, but mostly on account of being more verbose. The extent of the usage is somewhat dialect dependent.)

"gutten sitt smørbrød" (possessive pronoun; this structure is called "garpegenitiv", and is not suitable for formal writing. Sees more frequent use in connection with proper names than with regular nouns.)

[AlejandroMolina9]

I put guttens smørbrød and it marked me wrong !

[_ginzburg]

Take it easy, man.

[VitGryfny]

'Smørbrødet til gutten' - is it like 'Sandwich of the boy' ?

[fveldig]

Kinda, yes. (Or 'the sandwich of the boy' literally)

[LilTweetingBird]

I’m wondering how you would demonstrate possession (both how to pronounce and write it) with a name that ends with “s;” for example, “Hans” or “Thomas.” I’m guessing you wouldn’t say "Hanses" or write “Hanss", right?

[masterofgreen]

Does 'Gutten sin smørbrød' not work? It corrected me with 'Gutten sin skive', but it put 'Guttens smørbrød' as another correct answer.

[Deliciae]

"Gutten sitt smørbrød" smørbrød" works, but it does have to be "sitt" to match the neuter noun.

Mark that this is considered a less elegant way of forming the possessive, so it's best to stick with the genitive -s - at least in more formal writing.

[SamHartley2]

Guttenes smørbrød was not accepted. Why?

[Deliciae]

"Guttenes" is the plural possesive, while this sentence calls for the singular possessive: "guttens".

[Boguniu]

"Guttens smørbrød" is shown as the correct answer while available is ONLY word "Smørbrødet". No chance to win

[Nicola464444]

Why "Smørbrødet tilhører guttens" is incorrect?"

[Nicola464444]

I meant gutten instead of guttens