Gender in Norwegian nouns

Common nouns in Norwegian belong to a gender: ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’ or ‘neuter’. (In some versions of Norwegian there are only two options, the marking of feminine having disappeared or nearly disappeared. In these versions, one sometimes refers to the remaining non-neuter gender as ‘common gender’. Here we will assume the three-gender system.) The gender of a noun reveals itself in the form of the inflections for number and definiteness; typical forms of the suffixes are as indicated below (note that 'indefinite singular' has no suffix):

**noun suffixes sorted by definiteness, number and gender**
feature	masculine	feminine	neuter
indefinite plural	-er	-er	Ø (zero)
definite singular	-en	-a	-et
definite plural	-ene	-ene	-ene or -a