Norwegian Language

Grammar

The number of grammatical genders in Norwegian is somewhat disputed, but the official view is that Norwegian nouns fall into three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. The inflection of the nouns depends on the gender.

Bokmål

m.:	en gutt	gutten	gutter	guttene
m.:	(a boy)	(the boy)	(boys)	(the boys)
f.:	en/ei dr	dren/dra	drer	drene
f.:	(a door)	(the door)	(doors)	(the doors)
n.:	et hus	huset	hus	husene/husa
n.:	(a house)	(the house)	(houses)	(the houses)

Note that feminine nouns can be inflected like masculine nouns in Bokmål. Riksmål rejects the feminine gender and merges it with the masculine into a common gender (utrum), like in Danish.

Nynorsk

m.:	ein gut	guten	gutar	gutane
m.:	(a boy)	(the boy)	(boys)	(the boys)
f.:	ei sol	sola/soli	soler	solene
	(a sun)	(the sun)	(suns)	(the suns)
	ei kyrkje/	kyrkja	kyrkjer/	kyrkjene/
	kyrkja	kyrkja	kyrkjor	kyrkjone
	(a church)	(the church)	(churches)	(the churches)
n.:	eit hus	huset	hus	husa/husi
n.:	(a house)	(the house)	(houses)	(the houses)