Regular nouns: Indefinite and

definite form
After you have met a handsome troll in Norway, you might want to
tell your friends, neighbours, or granny about it:

-Jeg møter et troll. (I’m meeting a troll).

“Troll” is a neuter noun, so you use the indefinite article et when you

mention the troll for the first time: et troll. But after you have informed
your granny about the fact that you have met a troll, you might want to
tell more about the troll, and then it would be correct to use the definite
form of the noun:

-Trollet er sjarmerende. (The troll is charming).

It’s like in English: The definite form indicates that something is known
and identifiable for the listener, and then we use the definite article
“the” in English.

Regular nouns: Indefinite and definite form

SINGUL SINGULA
PLURAL PLURAL
AR R

INDEFIN
DEFINITE INDEFINI DEFINITE
ITE
FORM TE FORM FORM
FORM

(M) en
gutten gutter guttene
gutt
SINGUL SINGULA
PLURAL PLURAL
AR R

(M) en
posen poser posene
pose

(F) ei kantina
(en) (kantine kantiner kantinene
kantine n)

(F) ei
senga
(en) senger sengene
(sengen)
seng

(N) et
kurset kurs kursene
kurs

(N) et
trollet troll trollene
troll

       
SINGUL SINGULA
PLURAL PLURAL
AR R

(N) et
bildet bilder bildene
bilde

(N) et
universit universit universitet
universit
etet eter ene
et

You have figured it out, haven’t you? Norwegian doesn’t indicate the
definite form by the use of a separate word, like the English “the”, but
instead by using a suffix.