"Jenta og gutten spiser."

Translation: The girl and the boy are eating.

[Ericthelinguist]

How can Jente have two genders at once?

[Delphinine]

Technically, jente is a grammatically feminine noun, but in some Norwegian dialects, you can treat ("decline") any feminine noun as masculine.

Some feminine nouns are considered "strong" in that they are more likely to retain their feminine declension (e.g., jenta over jenten).

[BeatriceEl11]

There is not "are"

[Delphinine]

The Norwegian present tense encompasses both the English simple present (e.g., eat(s)) and continuous present (e.g., is/am/are eating) forms, so I believe that "The girl and the boy eat" and "The girl and the boy are eating" would both be acceptable translations of this sentence.

[azeecemogu]

I wrote
The girl and the boy eat but it didnt accept it

[NattKullav1]

Bokmål - Jenta og gutten spiser.
Nynorsk - Jenta og guten et.

[gabzerbinatoEng]

Is the tt in "gutten" pronounced? Or is it just a pause, like "Gu-n"?

[fveldig]

It is pronounced and I can definitely hear it.

[gabzerbinatoEng]

Thanks!

[deactivated user]

There is no glottal stop here and the correct IPA pronunciation is /'ɡʉtən:/.

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[potiviktoria]

Why "jenta" and "gutten"? What is this form?

[AnaKoprivi]

The indefinite form of the noun "gutt" is "en gutt" (en being the indefinite article to masculine nouns) to which then the definite form reads "gutten". The noun "jente" has two indefinite and definite forms since in Norwegian it can be both masculine and feminine and the forms are: indefinite:-en jente (masculine), ei jente (feminine) and definite: jenten (masculine, thus the same as gutten) and jenta (feminine, the way it was written above)

[placer14]

Are there any rules for when 'jente' should use the masculine or feminine article

[just_a_sparrow]

I think it just depends on how people talk in specific regions. Some use the feminine articles for feminine words, while others just use the masculine version for most feminine words.

[potiviktoria]

Tusen takk

[SaadAnis]

Is this correct: Jenta=the girl, jen ente=a girl, ei jente=a girl or one girl?

[deactivated user]

• en jente (masculine) - a girl
• ei jente (feminine) - a girl
• én jente - one girl
• jenta - the girl

[MjRosser]

Wouldn't gutten be plural?

[deactivated user]

Some languages, like German, add "-n" or "-en" to form the plural form.

der Student --> die Studenten

However, it's not the case with Norwegian as this kind of approach will create the definite form of that noun.

• en gutt - a boy
• gutt + en --> gutten - the boy

In the second example, the definite singular is created by adding the indefinite article at the end of the word itself in the form of a suffix.

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[Arabella210259]

I don't have tips for norwegian, irish and danish :( german, italian and french have them

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[Arabella210259]

I tend to use just the app, so it'd be great if they did make this though, but still thank you so much :)

[CockBig-19-]

Mannen and gutten are very similar when you say it

[ph.ON3ocv]

How do we know if spiser in a sentence is eats or is eating?