ABSTRACT
Nouns comprise two main groups: proper nouns and common or generic nouns. As in English, proper nouns are written with an initial capital letter, unlike common nouns. Grammatical gender, which is not found in English, is a system of noun classification in which most common nouns belong to one category or another. Gender is revealed when words related to the noun, such as articles, pronouns, determiners or adjectives, change their form according to the gender of the noun. Norwegian nouns form their indefinite plural in three main ways, by adding either the endings — er, — e or zero. Normally, nouns have both a singular and a plural form. There are nouns that have no singular – that occur only in the plural – but these are much less numerous than nouns that have no plural – that occur in the singular only.
