Norwegian Nouns and Pronouns

Norwegian Nouns

Norwegian nouns have three genders: Male, female and neutral. As grammatical gender varies between languages, even between dialects, it is simply best just to learn a lot of nouns and their gender in Norwegian to become more fluent.

Nouns are declined by number (singular and plural) and definiteness (indefinite and definite). In the singular indefinite form, the articles ein, ei and eit precede the noun:

Norwegian Nouns

Gender	Article + noun	English
Male	Ein stein, ein låve	A stone, a barn
Female	Ei jente, ei sol	A girl, a sun
Neutral	Eit hus, eit tre	A house, a tree

The definite form often causes problems for people learning Norwegian, because the definite article is affixed to the noun instead of preceding it. This is one of the key differences between Scandinavian languages and other languages in Europe, and is shown in the singular definite below:

Norwegian Nouns

Gender	Noun stem + article	English
Male	Steinen, låven	The stone, the barn
Female	Jenta, sola	The girl, the sun
Neutral	Huset, treet	The house, the tree

The plural forms have affixes both in the definite and indefinite forms:

Norwegian Nouns

Indefinite		Definite
Norwegian	English	Norwegian	English
Steinar, låvar	Stones, barns	Steinane, låvane	The stones, the barns
Jenter, soler	Girls, suns	Jentene, solene	The girls, the suns
Hus, tre	Houses, trees	Husa, trea	The houses, the trees

There are numerous variations of the definite affixes in the dialects.

Norwegian Pronouns

Norwegian has long since lost its case system, so personal pronouns are in the nominative and accusative, or subject and object forms only (with the odd dialectal dative).

Norwegian Pronouns

Subject form		Object form
Norwegian	English	Norwegian	English
Eg	I	Meg	Me
Du	You	Deg	You
Han	He	Han	Him
Ho	She	Ho / henne	Her
Det	It	Det	It
Me / vi	We	Oss	Us
De / dokker	You	Dykk / dokker	You
Dei	They	Dei	Them

I hope the content of this page was useful to you, and that you learned some Norwegian nouns, pronouns, consonants and vowels. Try to memorize them to be able to use them in your daily conversation. Make sure to check our Learn Norwegian page, which contains several lessons that might help you in your learning process.