Norwegian Section

04:20 Jul 24, 2011 

In context, seksjon probably works better than avdeling. Whether your title pick is 'Norsk seksjon', 'Den norske seksjonen', 'Dette er den norske seksjonen' or 'Velkommen til den norske seksjonen' is entirely a matter of personal preference. Please note that the double definite (den ... -en) that is pretty much outlawed in Danish (they would say den danske sektion), is pretty much mandatory in Norwegian. Just avoid 'Norske seksjonen', and you'll be OK.

20:50 Jul 23, 2011 

To illustrate, what I'm trying to use this for, here's the link to my website, where this is:

http://www.wildboar.net/multilingual/westerneuropean/norwegi...

If you follow the link, I put up an interesting short movie about Norway, so as you can see, I'm still working on the whole thing.

20:46 Jul 23, 2011 

I guess, you're right. Department = avdeling, section = seksjon. But I had to use section, because in case of a website it's called a section. Department would be something official, like a certain office within a company: for example, the accounting department or payroll department, IT department, legal department and so on. But in case of a website or a document/book there are no people/employees involved, only text and pictures, maybe movies or music. That's why section is a better word at least in English. It's just mean to say that here's this section/part of this website, which is different from the others, because this one is in Norwegian. So it's a section of my website, not a department. So in this sense isn't it better to say in Norwegian "avdeling"?

P.S.: Thanks for the explanation of the -en ending, as in "den avdelingen", but I don't need the word "the" in my title.

15:09 Jul 23, 2011 

seksjonen, avdelingen aren't plural; that would be seksjoner, avdelinger. It is instead the definite form - THE department or section.

14:39 Jul 23, 2011 

Avdeling would be appropriate if you could use department rather than section in English. Avdeling is the same word as Abteilung in German, meaning something that is distinct and logically or physically separated from something else.

14:31 Jul 23, 2011 

See last word on top horizontal green bar = Websites!

14:29 Jul 23, 2011 

Re: capitalization - In this example I was asking about the capitalization of nouns, in particular of avdeling. But since you wrote seksjon with a small S, that already answers my question.

My choices in ProZ KudoZ gave me 3 options: Norwegian, Norwegian (bokmaal) and Norwegian (nynorsk). So I thought, there were 3 versions of Norwegian, the latter two being dialects. But now, as you say, that bokmaal is spoken 99.9% of the time, then that seems to be the official language. (So there are really only 2 versions, not 3.) Anyway, bokmaal is fine, if that's the official Norwegian language used in written form and understood by most Norwegians.

I don't need plural (seksjonen, avdelingen). I put Norwegian Section in English only, but I was hoping that you would choose avdeling. Could I also use avdeling? And in that case would it still be norsk or norske?

Re: context - There's not much more context, I can provide, than I already provided. I mentioned that it's a title, so obviously the first letter would be capitalized, but only in the word "Norsk". Then "seksjon" or "avdeling" would remain small. I also mentioned that it's for any website, which has a Norwegian section.