Morphology Patterns
Understand how Norwegian words are built from prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Learn the meaning of common word parts and expand your vocabulary.
Prefixes
Word parts added before the root
Old Norse, intensifier
Old Norse origin, indicates 'out of' or 'of'.
Germanic origin, indicates relation or association.
Old Norse origin, adverbial prefix
Old Norse *fyrir* (before, for), indicates advocacy.
Old Norse origin, prepositional prefix meaning 'in, into'.
Germanic origin, meaning 'of' or 'from'
Old Norse origin, indicates direction or completion.
Old Norse origin, indicates a process or action 'out of' or 'from'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'together' or 'with'.
Latin origin, meaning 'again, anew'.
Latin origin, indicates 'within' or 'relating to'
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Roots
Core meaning-bearing word parts
Old Norse origin, meaning 'work'
Old Norse origin, meaning 'to show, to teach'
Danish/Norwegian origin, meaning 'formation', 'education', or 'development'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'cut, section, average'.
Derived from 'ruste' (to arm), meaning 'armament'.
Germanic origin, meaning 'position, state'.
Related to 'skanne' (to scan, investigate) - Old Norse origin, not a standalone root in modern Norwegian
From Old Norse, meaning 'to write'. Verbal origin.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'hand', evolved to 'preliminary'
From Danish/Norwegian 'konkurrence', ultimately from Latin 'concursus'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'walk, passage, way', functions as a noun root
Derived from *handling* (negotiation), *hand* (hand) + *-ing* (verbal noun suffix).
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Suffixes
Word parts added after the root
Linking element, Germanic origin
Germanic origin, nominalizing suffix.
Nominalizing suffix, Old Norse *-ing*.
Norwegian noun-forming suffix.
Nominalizing suffix, derived from *å skride*.
Norwegian nominalizing suffix, turning a verb into a noun.
Genitive suffix, linking morphemes.
Old Norse origin, nominalizing suffix indicating an action or process.
Genitive/possessive marker, also used to form nouns from verbs.
Nominalizing suffix, Old Norse origin.
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