Høgnorsk/Grammatical genders

Nouns - Namnordi

The nouns have one of three genders, either masculine, feminine or neuter. (hankyn, hokyn, inkjekyn) As an example we can use four words with different genders:

Masculine	Feminine 1	Feminine 2	Neuter
dag	sol	kyrkje	eple
day	sun	church	apple

As you can see there's two categories for the feminine gender, the first one is a lot more common. Both are treated the same except in certain declensions of the word itself.

Now, what do we write when we want to say something like 'a day' or 'the day'? Like in English 'a day', the indefinite article is before the word...

Indefinite articles

Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
ein	ei	eit

but with 'the day' we have to change the end of the word itself.

Singular definite suffixes

Masculine	Feminine 1	Feminine 2	Neuter
-en	-i	-a	-et

Try it out for yourself! Match them with the words we have. Indefinite 'ein, ei, and eit' being before the word, and definite '-en -i -a -et' being added to the end. Keep in mind that the vowel E at the end of kyrkj e and epl e are replaced completely by the suffix.

Answers
ein dag	ei sol	ei kyrkje	eit eple
dagen	soli	kyrkja	eplet