Stepdaughter

[Frihet]

How do I say "stepdaughter"? Certainly not "trådatter".

Takk!

George

[Frihet]

Takk, Mari.

From what I see in my old dictionary, I assume:

singular: stedatteren or stedattera
definite plural: stedøtre
indefinite plural: stedøtrene

Takk en gang til!

George

[keme]

Takk, Mari.

From what I see in my old dictionary, I assume:

singular: stedatteren or stedattera
definite plural: stedøtre
indefinite plural: stedøtrene

Takk en gang til!

George

Fixing mixup:
sing.indef: stedatter
Sing def: stedattera(/-en)
pl.indef:stedøtre
pl.def: stedøtrene

On usage: You often need an article to go with the noun. See the Wiki for details.
[wiki]Norwegian articles[/wiki]

[Frihet]

Hi, Keme.

Thanks for the correction. I really need to understand this.

At Lexin, a noun has three basic forms, written as below:

bilen biler bilene

Sometimes things are more complex:

datteren (el dattera) døtre (el døtrer) døtrene

I thought the second form (biler, døtre) was "those several entities over there - definite" and the third form was "those entities in general - indefinite".

Could you put three sentences together using "bil" to demonstrate each Lexin form?

I think I have a serious misunderstanding that requires correction.

George

[Car]

Hi Frihet!

Hi, Keme.

Thanks for the correction. I really need to understand this.

At Lexin, a noun has three basic forms, written as below:

bilen biler bilene

The first is the definitive singular, the second the indefinitive plural and the third is the definitive plural.

Sometimes things are more complex:

datteren (el dattera) døtre (el døtrer) døtrene

"el" stands for "eller" here, meaning "or". They mention it when a noun can be either masculine (datteren) or feminine (dattera).

[keme]

Lexin is good for finding the meaning of words, but the grammatical properties of words are not always obvious. The official Norwegian language dictionaries are better in that respect, but they are Norwegian only. (The content in that web service is delivered by the norwegian "language documentation project", and is the source for the printed Norwegian dictionaries.)

[roger100]

I noticed the same "problem" with Lexin. I bookmarked now the Norwegian dictionary advised by Keme, even it is only Norwegian.