Editing Nynorsk (section)

==== Definiteness inflection ====
As can be seen from the inflection tables for [[adjective]]s and [[Participle|past participles]], they all have their own inflection for definiteness. Just like Bokmål, when adjectives and past participles are accompanied by the articles in the following table below, the adjective/past participle gets the definite inflection and the following noun also gets the definite inflection - a form of double definiteness.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kontakt-pabygg.cappelendamm.no/ento/seksjon.html?tid=1823011|title=Kontakt påbygg: Dobbel bestemming, aktiv og passiv|website=kontakt-pabygg.cappelendamm.no|language=nb|access-date=2018-07-14}}</ref> Nynorsk requires the use of double definiteness, where as in Bokmål this is not required due to its Danish origins, but the usage in Bokmål depends on the formality of the text. That is, in Bokmål it is perfectly fine to write ''I første avsnitt'' (which means; "in the first paragraph"), while the same sentence in Nynorsk would be ''I det første avsnittet'' which is also the most common way to construct the sentence in the Norwegian dialects<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spenn1.cappelendamm.no/c52255/artikkel/vis.html?tid=69742|title=Nynorsk som sidemål|website=spenn1.cappelendamm.no|access-date=2018-07-14}}</ref> and is also legal Bokmål.

Like most Scandinavian languages, when the noun is definite and is described by an adjective like the phrase "the beautiful mountains", there is a separate definite article dependent on the gender/number of the noun. In Nynorsk these articles are: ''den''/''det''/''dei''. The following noun and adjective both gets a definite inflection. When there is no adjective and the articles ''den''/''det''/''dei'' are used in front of the noun (like ''dei fjella'', English; "those mountains"), the articles are inferred as the demonstrative "that"/"those" depending on if the noun is plural or not. The difference between the demonstrative "that" and the article "the" is in general inferred from context when there is an adjective involved.
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[Article (grammar)|Articles]]: "this/that/these/the"
!Masculine/feminine
!Neuter
!Plural
|-
|''den'' (that/the)
|''det'' (that/the)
|''dei'' (those/the)
|-
|''denne'' (this)
|''dette'' (this)
|''desse'' (these)
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Examples: definiteness
!Masculine/feminine
!English
|-
|''Den fin'''e''' bil'''en'''''
|That/the nice car
|-
|''Den bil'''en'''''
|That car
|-
|''Det rar'''e''' kjøleskap'''et'''''
|That/the weird fridge
|-
|''Dei storsleg'''ne''' fjord'''ane'''''
|Those/the magnificent fjords
|-
|''Dei nydeleg'''e''' fjell'''a'''''
|Those/the beautiful mountains
|-
|''Denne fin'''e''' jent'''a'''''
|This nice girl
|-
|''Dette stor'''e''' fjell'''et'''''
|This big mountain
|-
|''Desse rar'''e''' jent'''ene'''''
|These weird girls
|}