Too much information in short time, it's time to clean up the brain again. This table shows the definite
articles and the suffixes you have to add to the adjective. The articles
are in blue, and the suffixes in black (and the smileys, which represent
the adjective, are in green, if you haven't noticed):
| |
Singular
Indefinite |
Singular
Definite |
Plural
Indefinite |
Plural
Definite |
Masculine/
feminine |
 - |
den
-e |
-e |
de
-e |
| Neuter |
-t |
det
-e |
-e |
de
-e |
So when you want to describe a noun, you first use these rules
replacing the weird, little smiley with the
adjective you prefer, and then you put the conjugated noun behind the whole
bunch.
As we've already seen, adjectives can of course be written after
a verb too, for instance "to be", like this:
| Gutten er stor |
The boy is big |
| Huset er stort |
The house is big |
| Guttene er store |
The boys are big |
| Husene er store |
The houses are big |
Actually, we could say that when a verb separates the noun and
its adjective, you always treat the adjective as if it the noun
were indefinite (first and third
column of the adjective table), and no definite article is used in
front of the noun neither.
If this is the first time you read this page, we know that all
the adjective stuff is probably not completely clear yet. We
therefore recommend you to go
back a few pages and read over this information again before
you proceed. |
