det [VERB] [NOE/NOEN] [STED]

• ID: 1
• User: admin
• Approval status: approved
• Illustration: Det sitter noen studenter i kantina.
• Gloss: it sit some students in cafeteria
• Translation: There are some students in the cafeteria.
• English equivalent: The construction is used to point attention to where somebody/something is.
• Norwegian equivalent: Konstruksjonen brukes for å rette oppmerksomhet mot hvor noen/noe befinner seg.
• Description: The construction is used to introduce a new referent (expressed by a noun phrase) and to specify the location (expressed by a PP/AdvP) of the referent.
• Examples:
  • Det sitter en grevling på trappa
  • Det står noen bøker på hylla
  • Det ligger et hus i veien i Belgia
  • No examples
• CEFR: A2
• Proficiency level: Beginner
• Topic: General
• Style: Neutral
• Variety: Bokmål, Nynorsk, Dialect
• Geography: Oslo, Tromsø, …
• Morphosyntactic type: Multi-Word: Clausal construction
• Morphosyntactic structure: det V NP PP/AdvP
• Semantic features: Relevance, Location
• Anchor words: det
• CC annotation: empty
• Comment: No comment
• Alternate forms: no
• Similar constructions (other languages): there is/are something/somebody somewhere
• Contributors: Anna Endresen, Olaf Mikkelsen