Editing Norwegian language (section)

==== Genitive of nouns ====
In general, the [[genitive case]] has died out in modern Norwegian and there are only some remnants of it in certain expressions: {{lang|no|til fjells}} ('to the mountains'), {{lang|no|til sjøs}} ('to the sea'). To show ownership, there is an [[enclitic]] -''s'' similar to English -{{'}}''s''; {{lang|no|Sondres flotte bil}} ('Sondre's nice car', ''Sondre'' being a personal name). There are also reflexive possessive pronouns, {{lang|no|sin}}, {{lang|no|si}}, {{lang|no|sitt}}, {{lang|no|sine}}; {{lang|no|Det er Sondre sitt}} ('It is Sondre's'). In both Bokmål and modern Nynorsk, there is often a mix of both of these to mark possession, though it is more common in Nynorsk to use the reflexive pronouns; in Nynorsk use of the reflexive possessive pronouns is generally encouraged to avoid mixing the enclitic -''s'' with the historical grammatical case remnants of the language. The reflexive pronouns agree in gender and number with the noun.

The enclitic -''s'' in Norwegian evolved as a shorthand expression for the possessive pronouns {{lang|no|sin}}, {{lang|no|si}}, {{lang|no|sitt}} and {{lang|no|sine}}.{{Citation needed|date=September 2022}}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Examples
|-
!Norwegian (with pronoun)
!Norwegian (with enclitic 's)
!English
|-
|{{lang|no|Jenta sin bil}}
|{{lang|no|Jentas bil}}
|The girl's car
|-
|{{lang|no|Mannen si kone}}
|{{lang|no|Mannens kone}}
|The man's wife
|-
|{{lang|no|Gutten sitt leketøy}}
|{{lang|no|Guttens leketøy}}
|The boy's toy
|-
|{{lang|no|Kona sine barn}}
|{{lang|no|Konas barn}}
|The wife's children
|-
|{{lang|no|Det er statsministeren sitt}}
|{{lang|no|Det er statsministerens}}
|It is the prime minister's
|}