Norwegian nouns....
When I look up a word like "hengsel" in the dictionary I find something like this:
"hengselen (el hengselet hengslet hengsla) hengsler (el hengsel) hengslene (el hengsla)"
I understand "hengselen" (the hinge), hengsler (hinges) and "hengslene" (the hinges) but I would like to know what are these other forms in parenthesis:
"(el hengselet hengslet hengsla) (el hengsel) (el hengsla)"
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It looks to me like its saying it can be all three genders, other than the last one hengsla for def. pl. which i dont get.
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Many Norwegian words have alternative written forms. You probably got a dictionary that also list the most common alternative forms. As a language learner I would suggest that you ignore those when you write, since you really should use the main forms, but when you read you might come across alternative forms.
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