Arguments

One lemma låne · the other party’s marker selects the direction · Bokmål cloth · working claim, revisable

Lend · Voice[Lender] + ApplHAVE(Recipientbare pronoun / til, ThemeOBJ) · låne · Bokmålsordboka 4 kan du låne meg en tier? · NAOB låner pengene til tyrken · lånte henne en million kroner

Borrow · the same låne · Voice[Borrower] + Theme + Sourceav · Bokmålsordboka 1 hun lånte bilen av moren sin · NAOB av Bernhard · Språkrådet av/ hos broren min · hos is the entry’s muntlig stil

Lend particles on the same lemma · ut · bort · Bokmålsordboka bankene låner ut penger · hun lånte bort sykkelen sin · NAOB sense 2 også med partikkelen ut · låner ikke ut båtene sine … til folk · adverb bort sense 4 lists låne bort noe

A lending, on this reading, has a Lender, a Recipient, and a Theme. Bokmålsordboka’s sense 4 is la noen få bruke noe en viss tid. NAOB’s sense 2 is overlate til midlertidig bruk, and the entry adds også med partikkelen ut. The time wording is the definition’s. This page quotes it and does not turn it into an aspect claim. The thing is the object: en tier, sykkelen sin, penger, båtene sine, et sådant værk, en million kroner. Full noun phrases show no case ending. The other person, on the give reading, is a bare object pronoun or til plus a noun phrase: meg, henne, dem, mig, deg, til tyrken, til folk. Voice adds the lender as the subject. Low ApplHAVE introduces the Recipient inside that one verb domain and relates the Recipient to the Theme. The drawing is the same working claim as the Recipient of English give-geometry pay, and it is revisable. On betale a Recipient is unprinted. Which theta role is the object in this low ApplHAVE domain is the note Causative templates and argument selection. This page does not edit that note.

Where the frame sits against the English gloss. English lend does not mean borrow. The lender is the subject. The recipient is a bare object (lend Chris the car) or a to-phrase (lend the car to Chris). The borrower is the subject of another verb, and the source is from. låne keeps both directions on one lemma. Bokmålsordboka numbers the get reading as sense 1, få noe til bruk en viss tid, and the give reading as sense 4. NAOB numbers the get reading as sense 1, få seg overlatt til midlertidig bruk, and the give reading as sense 2. A bare object pronoun, or til, is the give frame. av is the person on the get frame. The lemma stays låne. Dutch lenen makes the same kind of cut, with aan or a bare indirect object against van. German leihen keeps both directions and adds a reflexive dative on the borrow frame. No borrow citation of the returnable thing read here is reflexive. fra is printed, and the complements in those lines are a word, a domain, a digit, or an institution. A person in fra is unprinted in Bokmålsordboka, in NAOB’s returnable-thing lines, and in Språkrådet’s pair.

The bare object pronoun is printed, and the dictionaries give it no colloquial label and no regional label. Bokmålsordboka’s sense 4 example is kan du låne meg en tier? NAOB’s editorial example under sense 2.3 is banken lånte henne en million kroner til boligkjøpet. The citations are Ibsen frøken West lånte mig et sådant værk, Michelet Hermann lånte dem en hel haug pesetas, Lunde la meg få låne deg morgenkåpen min, and Aubert kan du låne meg noen penger. The printed bare forms are pronouns. A bare full noun phrase in the meg slot is unprinted. The full noun phrase that is printed sits in til: til tyrken, til folk, and, for a name lent to an appeal, til et opprop.

ut and bort sit on låne, and the examples are give. They are particles of this lemma. Bokmålsordboka prints bankene låner ut penger and hun lånte bort sykkelen sin under sense 4. The adverb bort, sense 4, is fra én persons eie til en annen person, and låne bort noe is one example, beside leie bort. NAOB’s låne article, as read, prints ut and does not print bort. The finite order in the lines is verb, then the particle, then the object: låner ut penger, lånte bort sykkelen sin. Jacobsen has the negation between the verb and the particle: låner ikke ut båtene sine, and til folk names the person. Dutch uitlenen is a separate lemma and is lend-only. Norwegian ut does not open a second lemma. The get-side particle NAOB prints is inn, on låne inn.

Places · who wears which marking

Bokmålsordboka, NAOB, and Språkrådet do not put a lender, a recipient, a thing, and a source in one clause. Sense 4 and NAOB sense 2 are the lend frame. Sense 1 is the borrow frame of that lemma. ut and bort are the lend particles. Pat and Chris continue the named-participant series on selge. A name does not spell case. til Chris and av Chris are the prepositions. The time wording in the definitions is quoted and is not given an aspect label.

låne · give · a bare object pronoun or til · the thing is the object

✓ la noen få bruke noe en viss tid Bokmålsordboka · låne 4 · the time wording is the definition’s

✓ kan du låne meg en tier? · låne navnet sitt til et opprop Bokmålsordboka · sense 4 · bare meg · til of the appeal

✓ overlate til midlertidig bruk · også med partikkelen ut NAOB · låne 2 · the particle is in the sense heading

✓ [jeg] låner pengene til tyrken · frøken West lånte mig et sådant værk · la meg få låne deg morgenkåpen min NAOB · Ibsen, Peer Gynt · Ibsen, Rosmersholm · Lunde 2017 · til of the person · bare mig and deg

✓ banken lånte henne en million kroner til boligkjøpet · kan du låne meg noen penger NAOB · sense 2.3 · editorial example · Aubert 2016 · the sum is one object · til boligkjøpet is the purpose in that line

to let someone use something for a time. Can you lend me a ten-kroner note? I lend the money to the Turk. The bank lent her a million kroner.

The same låne · get · av of the person · på and i of a place are also printed

✓ få noe til bruk en viss tid · hun lånte bilen av moren sin · låne bøker på biblioteket Bokmålsordboka · sense 1 · av moren sin · på biblioteket

✓ få seg overlatt til midlertidig bruk · låne en bok på biblioteket · han får lånt noen kroner av Bernhard NAOB · sense 1 and 1.1 · Michelet · av Bernhard

✓ låne penger i banken, i obligasjonsmarkedet · låne penger til høy rente NAOB · sense 1.1 · i of the bank · til høy rente is the rate phrase on the get sense

✓ jeg fikk låne boka av/ hos broren min (hos er muntlig stil) Språkrådet · preposisjonsbruk · the parentheses and the label muntlig stil are the entry’s · av and hos are the pair

to get something for a time. She borrowed the car from her mother. He gets a few kroner from Bernhard. I was allowed to borrow the book from my brother. hos is Språkrådet’s spoken cloth.

ut and bort · give · the particle between the verb and the object · inn is the get-side particle NAOB prints

✓ bankene låner ut penger · hun lånte bort sykkelen sin Bokmålsordboka · sense 4 · ut · bort · no person in these two lines

✓ låne bort noe Bokmålsordboka · adverb bort 4 · fra én persons eie til en annen person · beside leie bort

✓ Adolf låner ikke ut båtene sine, fremfor alt ikke til folk som ikke kan ro · De låner altså Deres hus ud til folkefiender · låne ut penger NAOB · Jacobsen 2013 · Ibsen, En folkefiende · sense 2.3 example · til folk when the person is named · Ibsen’s ud is the entry’s spelling

✓ låne (kunstverk e.l.) for en begrenset periode fra annen (kultur)institusjon · låne inn et maleri til en utstilling NAOB · sense 1 expression · inn · fra is in the definition · the example’s til is the exhibition

to give temporary use. The banks lend money out. She lent her bicycle away. He does not lend his boats out, above all not to people who cannot row.

Places of låne: introducer, Norwegian marking, case status, English and sibling marking
PlaceIntroduced by (working)Norwegian markingCase statusEnglish and sibling marking
LenderSpec,Voice of the give frame, and of låne ut / låne bortsubject · no ending on a full nounlåner, lånte, har lånt · a låne line with only a theme does not spell the direction · Bokmålsordboka files låne penger under sense 1 · sense 4’s money line is låner ut pengersubject of lend · subject of lenen when the other human is aan or a bare indirect object · subject of the lend frame of leihen
Recipientlow ApplHAVE inside the lend framea bare object pronoun · or til + DPmeg, henne, dem, mig, deg · til tyrken, til folk, til et opprop · full DPs show no ending · the two cloths are both printed · this page does not rank them · a bare full DP in the pronoun slot is unprinted · the dictionaries print no colloquial label and no regional label on the pronounbare object of lend Chris the car, or to · Dutch aan or a bare indirect object · German dative · an + accusative is unprinted on leihen
Themecomplement of lånethe one object · no case endingen tier, bilen, sykkelen sin, penger, båtene sine, en million kroner, noen penger · a sum in the object slot is one object · it is not a second argument beside the currency namedirect object of lend and of borrow · the one object of lenen · accusative of leihen
BorrowerSpec,Voice of the get framesubject of that framethe lemma is the lend lemma’s other sense · English puts this subject on borrow · jeg fikk låne boka is Språkrådet’s get example, with av or hos of the brothersubject of borrow · subject of lenen beside van · subject of the borrow frame of leihen
Sourceav on the get frame of a person · fra on a word, a domain, a digit, or an institutionav + DP · hos of a person, printed by Språkrådet as muntlig stil · på of a library and i of a bank, unranked against avav moren sin, av Bernhard, av broren min · hos broren min, hos Foksens · på biblioteket, i banken · fra engelsk, fra latin, fra tallet foran, fra annen (kultur)institusjon · a person after fra is unprinted in these linesfrom of borrow · Dutch van · German von or bei · English from a person is av in the lines of the returnable thing
ut / bort / innparticles of the same lånelåner ut, lånte bort, låner ikke ut · låne innthe particle follows the finite verb and precedes the object in the lines read · ikke sits between the verb and ut in Jacobsen · bort is Bokmålsordboka’s · NAOB’s låne article prints ut and inn · ut sesongen in har lånt Odd-spilleren ut sesongen is filed under NAOB sense 1, with the player as the themeno piece of English lend · Dutch uit is the separate lemma uitlenen · German leihen has no particle · ausleihen is the separable neighbour

Marking map. One string til is the Recipient when the complement is the person or the appeal, and it is the rate or the purpose in other printed lines. Read the complement, then the preposition. av is the person-source. fra is the other source preposition, and its printed complements are not that person.

EN ⇄ NO valency strip

Each row lines up one English slot with its Norwegian slot. The alignment type says what happens to the slot: = (same status), shift (a bare English object or to ↔ a bare object pronoun or til; from a person ↔ av), or one lemma where English uses two. Dictionary lines come first. The constructed Norwegian sentences are modelled on a printed line. They show the working alignment, not frequency, and not a bilingual corpus.

English–Norwegian valency alignment for lend / låne, one row per argument
SlotEN formNO formAlignEN exampleNO example
Lender as subjectSUBJ of lendsubject of the give frame · subject of låne ut and låne bort= for this direction · the lemma also has the borrower’s subjectCan you lend me a ten-kroner note? constructed glosskan du låne meg en tier? Bokmålsordboka
ThemeOBJthe one object · no case ending=the car · a million kroner glossesbilen Bokmålsordboka · en million kroner NAOB
Recipientbare object, or toa bare object pronoun, or til + DPshift · two English clothes · two Norwegian clothes · unranked · the bare forms are pronouns · full DPs have no ending and sit in tillend me the book · lend the money to the Turk the two English clothesmeg en tier Bokmålsordboka · til tyrken NAOB · til Chris constructed
Borrower as subjectSUBJ of borrow · a different English lemmasubject of the same låneone Norwegian lemma for a direction English keeps on borrowShe borrowed the car from her mother. glosshun lånte bilen av moren sin Bokmålsordboka
Source, personfromav + DP · hos is Språkrådet’s muntlig stilshift · the lemma does not change · fra is unprinted for this person · Dutch van is the other one-lemma person-sourceborrow the book from my brother glossav moren sin Bokmålsordboka · av/ hos broren min Språkrådet
Source, place or institutionat / frompå · i · fra of an institution in the låne inn definitionprinted · unranked against av · not a second source argument beside av in one clauseborrow books at the library glosspå biblioteket Bokmålsordboka · i banken NAOB
fra of a word or a domainfrom of borrow a wordfra + the language or the domainthe linguistic source · the same preposition is unprinted for the person of the returnable thingthe word is borrowed from English glossfra engelsk Bokmålsordboka · fra latin NAOB
ut / bortno separate piece of lendparticle, after the finite verb and before the objectthe split is printed · the lemma stays låne · Dutch uitlenen is another lemmaThe banks lend money out. glossbankene låner ut penger Bokmålsordboka · lånte bort sykkelen sin Bokmålsordboka
Rentrent · a different English lemmaleie utNorwegian splits the lemmas · Japanese 貸す does notrent the house not this pageleie ut the rent page · not a sense of låne

The strip below is a set of small multiples. Each card holds one frame, with English on top and Norwegian under it. The subject chip is the lender when the other human is a bare pronoun or til, and the borrower when the other phrase is av. On the particle card the person may be absent.

EN · NO · Recipient til

til tyrken

I lend the money to the Turk.

[jeg] låner pengene til tyrken

NO · NAOB · Ibsen, Peer Gynt · subject lends · til Recipient · the money is the object · English has a bare object or to

RolesHide roles LenderRecipientTheme
Lender 1sg Recipient til tyrken Theme pengene

Move til inside ApplHAVE · the lend frame of låne

EN · NO · bare object pronoun

låne meg en tier

Can you lend me a ten-kroner note?

kan du låne meg en tier?

NO · Bokmålsordboka · sense 4 · no colloquial label · no regional label · NAOB prints henne, meg, mig, dem, deg

RolesHide roles LenderRecipientTheme
Lender 2sg Recipient meg Theme en tier

Move object pronoun · no dative ending · full DP unprinted in this slot

EN · NO · same låne · Source av

av moren sin

She borrowed the car from her mother.

hun lånte bilen av moren sin

NO · Bokmålsordboka · sense 1 · av is the person-source · the lemma is the one that also takes til · Dutch van is the other one-lemma person-source

RolesHide roles BorrowerSourceTheme
Borrower 3sg Source av moren sin Theme bilen

Move same lemma · av where English has from a person and a second verb

EN · NO · ut after the verb

låner ut penger

The banks lend money out.

bankene låner ut penger

NO · Bokmålsordboka · finite verb, ut, object · no Recipient in this line · NAOB prints låner ikke ut båtene sine and then til folk

RolesHide roles LenderTheme
Lender bankene Theme penger

Move ut on the same lemma · lend example · Recipient unexpressed here

Examples

Argument difference. English lend X to Y does not mean borrow. Pat lent Chris the car and Pat borrowed the car from Chris are two verbs. The recipient of lend is a bare object or to. The source of borrow is from. låne is one lemma. The give frame has the lender as subject, the thing as object, and the other person as a bare object pronoun or as til. The get frame has the borrower as subject and the person as av. Språkrådet also prints hos and labels it muntlig stil. fra is the source of a word, a domain, a digit, or an institution in the lines read, and it is unprinted for that person. ut and bort are lend particles on the same lemma. Dutch lenen uses aan or a bare indirect object against van, and uitlenen is a separate lend-only lemma. German leihen uses a dative Recipient and a reflexive dative plus von or bei on the borrow frame. Norwegian prints no dative ending and no reflexive on the returnable-thing borrow lines. Rent is leie ut, unlike 貸す.

Dictionary lines · quoted as printed

kan du låne meg en tier? · hun lånte bort sykkelen sin · bankene låner ut penger · hun lånte bilen av moren sin · låne bøker på biblioteket · ordet er lånt fra engelsk Bokmålsordboka · låne 4, 1, and 2

låner pengene til tyrken · lånte mig et sådant værk · låner ikke ut båtene sine … til folk · av Bernhard · låne penger i banken · fra latin NAOB

jeg fikk låne boka av/ hos broren min (hos er muntlig stil) Språkrådet

låne bort noe Bokmålsordboka · adverb bort 4

The strings below that are not in the block above are constructed, modelled on til tyrken, låne meg en tier, av moren sin, and låner ut penger. They are not spontaneous-speech citations and not dictionary lines. Pat / Chris continue the named-participant series on selge.

✓ [jeg] låner pengene til tyrken

RolesHide roles LenderRecipientTheme
Lender 1sg Recipient til tyrken Theme pengene

NAOB · Ibsen · til Recipient · the money is the object · the brackets are the entry’s

✓ Pat låner boken til Chris.

RolesHide roles LenderRecipientTheme
Lender Pat Recipient til Chris Theme boken

constructed · til of the named series · modelled on til tyrken · not a dictionary line

✓ kan du låne meg en tier?

RolesHide roles LenderRecipientTheme
Lender 2sg Recipient meg Theme en tier

Bokmålsordboka · bare object pronoun · the note is one object · NAOB prints kan du låne meg noen penger and lånte henne en million kroner · no colloquial label

✓ Kan du låne meg boken?

RolesHide roles LenderRecipientTheme
Lender 2sg Recipient meg Theme boken

constructed · bare object pronoun · modelled on låne meg en tier and låne meg noen penger · this string is not a cited line

✓ hun lånte bilen av moren sin

RolesHide roles BorrowerSourceTheme
Borrower 3sg Source av moren sin Theme bilen

Bokmålsordboka · sense 1 · av person-source · same lemma as the til frame · NAOB prints av Bernhard

✓ Pat låner boken av Chris.

RolesHide roles BorrowerSourceTheme
Borrower Pat Source av Chris Theme boken

constructed · av of the named series · modelled on av moren sin and av broren min · fra Chris is unprinted and is not this string

✓ bankene låner ut penger

RolesHide roles LenderTheme
Lender bankene Theme penger

Bokmålsordboka · ut before the object · no Recipient · the clause is still låne

✓ hun lånte bort sykkelen sin

RolesHide roles LenderTheme
Lender 3sg Theme sykkelen sin

Bokmålsordboka · bort before the object · adverb bort 4 lists låne bort noe · NAOB’s låne article, as read, does not print bort

✓ Pat låner ut boken.

RolesHide roles LenderTheme
Lender Pat Theme boken

constructed · same order as låner ut penger · this string is not a cited line

  1. ✓ til tyrken · meg en tier NAOB · Bokmålsordboka · two Recipient cloths
  2. ✓ av moren sin Bokmålsordboka · same lemma · person-source
  3. ✓ av/ hos broren min Språkrådet · hos is muntlig stil
  4. ✓ låner ut penger · lånte bort sykkelen Bokmålsordboka · particles before the object
  5. ✓ ikke ut båtene sine … til folk NAOB · Jacobsen · particle and til
  6. ✓ fra engelsk · fra latin Bokmålsordboka · NAOB · a word · not the person of the returnable thing
  7. ✓ på biblioteket · i banken Bokmålsordboka · NAOB · places · unranked against av
  8. ✓ til høy rente NAOB · rate on the get sense · not a further sister

One lemma · a pronoun or til · av of the person · two lend particles

The preposition is an operation on a place the clause already has. A particle ut or bort is an operation on the verb. Neither one adds a second English verb by itself. The lemma stays låne.

A bare object pronoun and til. The recipient of the give frame is a bare object pronoun, or til plus a noun phrase. Bokmålsordboka prints meg. NAOB prints henne, meg, mig, dem, deg, and til tyrken. til Chris is the same til, constructed. English spells the same role as a bare object or as to. Full Norwegian noun phrases show no case ending. The pronoun has no dative ending. The two clothes stay unranked, as the two buyer clothes stay unranked on selge. The dictionaries print the pronoun with no colloquial label and no regional label.

av on the same låne. Sense 1 does not change the lemma. av moren sin, av Bernhard, and av broren min are the person. hos is Språkrådet’s spoken alternate and is not ranked against av. på biblioteket and i banken are places. Dutch leaves both directions on lenen and uses van. German adds a reflexive dative and von or bei. No borrow line of the returnable thing read here has seg. låne sig til is the availability reading.

The particles are ut and bort. Bokmålsordboka prints låner ut penger and lånte bort sykkelen sin. NAOB prints låner ikke ut båtene sine and Ibsen’s hus ud, and the sense heading says også med partikkelen ut. The short examples leave the person out. Jacobsen and Ibsen still name til folk. inn is the particle on låne inn. The inflection of the simple verb, in Bokmålsordboka’s table, is å låne, låner, lånte, har lånt, lån! NAOB’s moderat bokmål is preterite lånte, participle lånt. There is no ge-. V2 puts one phrase in front of the finite verb. The particle stays with the verb phrase: ikke separates låner from ut in the Jacobsen line. A perfect har lånt ut is unprinted in the lines read. Ibsen’s attributive udlaant sum is the entry’s older spelling of the participle.

A låne line with only a theme does not grow a direction out of the verb. The dictionaries file such lines under a numbered sense. låne penger is the get sense. låne ut penger is the give sense. fra does not take over the person-source that av has. That preposition split is the cut van makes with one preposition for the person, and it is the cut von or bei makes beside a reflexive.

Derivations · working sketches, revisable

Each sketch is a working drawing, not a locked analysis. The point of the drawing is one object Theme, a Recipient that is a bare object pronoun or til, a person-source on the same låne that is av, and ut or bort on the lend examples. Open one sketch at a time. The low ApplHAVE claim is the same working claim as on pay, and it stays revisable. On betale a Recipient is unprinted.

Voice · the external argument is the Lender or the Borrower

låne has both subjects · ut and bort are on the lender-side examples

[VoiceP Pat Voice                     ← Lender · sense 4 · låne ut / låne bort
  … til / bare pronoun …
]
[VoiceP Pat Voice                     ← Borrower · sense 1
  … av …
]

✓ kan du låne meg en tier? Bokmålsordboka · the addressee is the Lender

✓ av moren sin Bokmålsordboka · the subject of sense 1 is the Borrower · same lemma

English puts the two external arguments of the returnable thing on lend and borrow. låne has both, in two numbered senses. The particles ut and bort are printed on the give examples. They do not open a second lemma.

Low ApplHAVE · a bare pronoun or til, or av

Lend frame · one Recipient · pronoun or til · inside the single verb domain

[VoiceP 2sg Voice
  [ApplP_LOW meg Appl_HAVE              ← Recipient · HAVE the theme
    [VP √låne-
       [Theme en tier ] ] ] ]            ← Theme · one object
                                         ← or til tyrken · unranked

[VoiceP 3sg Voice                      ← Borrower · sense 1
  [VP √låne-
     [Theme bilen ]
     [avP av moren sin ] ] ]             ← person-source · av
                                         ← fra of a person unprinted

The borrow sense is the same verb. The person-source is av. It is not a second numeration, and it is not a reflexive. hos broren min is the spoken phrase Språkrådet prints. It is not drawn as a second source beside av. på biblioteket and i banken are the place phrases the dictionaries print.

✓ meg · til tyrken Bokmålsordboka · NAOB · lend frames

✓ av moren sin · av Bernhard Bokmålsordboka · NAOB · get frame

✓ fra engelsk · fra latin Bokmålsordboka · NAOB · a word · not this av

ut and bort · before the object · inn on the get side

particles of låne · the lemma does not change

låner ut penger                     ← Bokmålsordboka · ut before the object
lånte bort sykkelen sin              ← Bokmålsordboka · bort before the object
låner ikke ut båtene sine            ← NAOB · ikke between verb and ut
hus ud til folkefiender              ← NAOB · Ibsen · til after the object
låne inn et maleri til en utstilling ← NAOB · inn · til of the exhibition
å låne · låner · lånte · har lånt    ← Bokmålsordboka · simple verb
har lånt ut                          ← unprinted in the lines read

✓ bankene låner ut penger Bokmålsordboka

✓ Adolf låner ikke ut båtene sine, fremfor alt ikke til folk som ikke kan ro NAOB · Jacobsen · til Recipient

Nothing here is a claim about aspect. The time wording stays in the definitions that print it.

English, Dutch, German · where the second direction sits

Working · no English lend page is opened · Dutch lenen · German leihen

[VoiceP Pat Voice                                  ← Lender
  [ApplP_LOW til Chris Appl_HAVE                  ← Recipient · til
    [VP √LÅNE-
       [Theme boken ] ] ] ]                       ← låne
                                                     · English lend Chris the car
                                                     · or lend the car to Chris
                                                     · or meg · a pronoun

[VoiceP Pat Voice                                  ← Borrower · same låne
  [VP √LÅNE-
     [Theme boken ]
     [avP av Chris ] ] ]                          ← av
                                                     · English borrow … from
                                                     · Dutch lenen … van
                                                     · fra of this person unprinted

[VoiceP bankene Voice                              ← låne ut
  [VP √LÅNE- ut
     [Theme penger ] ] ]                          ← same lemma
                                                     · Dutch uitlenen is another lemma

English keeps the two directions of the returnable thing on two verbs. låne keeps both, and the marker selects. ut and bort keep the lend direction on that lemma. German keeps both directions and adds a reflexive dative. Rent stays on leie ut.

Layer-by-layer parallel: English lend, English borrow, Norwegian låne, Dutch lenen, German leihen
Layerlend (EN) · no pageborrow (EN) · no pagelånelenen · leihen
Spec,VoiceLenderBorrowerLender in the give sense · Borrower in the get senseboth languages keep both subjects on one lemma · German adds a reflexive dative on the borrow frame
other partybare object, or tofrombare object pronoun or til on the lend frame · av on the borrow frame of a person · hos spoken · fra of a word, a domain, a digit, or an institutionDutch aan or a bare indirect object, and van · German dative, and von or bei · an unprinted on leihen
objectthe themethe themeone object, including a sumone object on lenen · one accusative on leihen
particlenonenoneut and bort on the lend examples · inn on låne inn · the lemma stays låneDutch uitlenen is a separate lend-only lemma · German leihen has no particle
rentrent is another lemmaunasserted hereleie ut is the rent verbDutch verhuren · Japanese rent is the same 貸す

On the lend frame, the recipient comes to HAVE the thing, or the sum, for the stretch the definitions describe and this page does not label. On betale, the object can be the money and for is Consideration. On låne a money object is the Theme. On leie ut the lemma is another verb, and a person in til is unprinted there. On 貸す the paid reading stays on the lend verb.

Notes

Working paper · October 2026 · Norwegian micro-entry · Beyond Index 2

Temporary transfer in Bokmål. One lemma låne. Lender or borrower as subject. Theme the one object. Recipient a bare object pronoun or til. Person-source av. fra is a word, a domain, a digit, or an institution in the lines read. ut and bort are lend particles on the same lemma. Rent is leie ut.

NO micro-entry live Beyond Index 2 rate not a further sister NL lenen live DE leihen live

Sense × language: lend · Norwegian (låne). The returnable-theme sense is the page. The ear, the hand, the supportive name, the subtraction digit, and the linguistic reading stay off that frame, except where fra of a word shows which source preposition is printed. Not given a page here: låne ut, låne bort, låne inn. No English lend hub. Geometry neighbors: lend · lenen · lend · leihen · rent · leie ut · sell · selge · payGIVE · betale. Index 2 Norwegian Transfer cites bytte; gi — not låne.

Working paper. Norwegian micro-entry, Bokmål. The frames were read in Bokmålsordboka under låne and under the adverb bort, in NAOB under låne, and in Språkrådet’s preposition list. The Recipient is a low ApplHAVE argument, a working claim shared with English pay on this site, and it is revisable.
Constructed examples. Dictionary lines are marked as printed. Pat låner boken til Chris, Kan du låne meg boken?, Pat låner boken av Chris, and Pat låner ut boken are marked constructed. No frame is starred.
Arity. Index 2 does not list låne. Surface count can name a subject, a bare pronoun or a til-phrase or an av-phrase, and a theme. The lexicon does not list four co-arguments of one flat V. Voice adds the subject. On the lend frame, low ApplHAVE adds the Recipient. The root takes the Theme. av is the person-source of the get frame. ut and bort are particles, not further sisters. Rate wording is not a further sister in the lines read.
What this page does not do. It does not open låne ut, låne bort, or låne inn as pages. It does not open an English page of lend. The ear, the hand, the supportive name, the subtraction digit, and the linguistic reading stop at the non-transfer senses, apart from the fra complements quoted with them. The rent frames stay on leie ut. The Dutch frames stay on lenen. The German frames stay on leihen.

Hierarchy

Not a flat grid of four sisters. A flat grid would give låne a Recipient, a Source, a Theme, and a rate in one clause. The entries read here do not print that clause. låne shows one object, the Theme, and one other party: a bare object pronoun or til when the subject lends, av when the subject borrows from a person.

en million kroner = one object. The sum sits in the theme slot. til boligkjøpet is the purpose in that NAOB example. til høy rente and renter af en udlaant sum are rate wordings. They are not a second object beside the sum, and til høy rente is not the Recipient.

What Norwegian shows, against the English gloss lend X to Y, is where the direction lives. English uses lend or borrow. Lend takes a bare recipient or to. Borrow takes from. låne uses one lemma. The give marker is a bare object pronoun or til. The person on the get frame is av. ut and bort are lend particles of that lemma. fra is printed for a word, a domain, a digit, and an institution. Dutch uses van for the person on lenen. German uses a reflexive and von or bei.

Geometry · låne beside the live roots

In [jeg] låner pengene til tyrken, the speaker hands over the money. In hun lånte bilen av moren sin, the subject takes the car from her mother. The definitions name a stretch of use. This page quotes that wording and does not add an aspect label.

  • English lend and borrow. Two verbs. Lend takes the lender as subject and a bare Recipient or to. Borrow takes the borrower as subject and from. No English page is opened. The Norwegian match of both verbs is låne. The match of the bare Recipient is an object pronoun. The match of to is til. The match of from a person, on the returnable thing, is av.
  • lenen. One lemma, and the other human’s marker selects the direction: aan or a bare indirect object, or van. uitlenen is a separate lemma and is lend-only. On ontlenen, aan marks the Source. låne is that kind of one-lemma verb. The Norwegian markers are a bare object pronoun or til, and av. til does not flip to the person-source of the get frame. ut stays on låne.
  • leihen. Both directions on one lemma. The lend frame is a dative Recipient and an accusative Theme. The borrow frame is a reflexive dative and von or bei. an + accusative is unprinted on leihen. Norwegian prints til for a full noun phrase and an object pronoun with no dative ending. The borrow lines of the returnable thing have no reflexive.
  • pożyczyć and kölcsönöz. Polish uses one lemma and a bare dative against od plus genitive. Hungarian kölcsönad is lender-side and separates kölcsön. kölcsönöz is one lemma: dative on the lend sense, ablative of a person or elative of a place on the borrow sense. Norwegian av does not split person and place the way those Hungarian cases do. på of a library and i of a bank are further printed phrases.
  • leie ut and 貸す. Japanese prints lend and the paid reading on one lemma. Norwegian prints lend on låne and rent on leie ut / leie. Both Norwegian verbs print ut and bort. On leie ut a person in til is unprinted. On låne til folk and til tyrken are printed.
  • selge. The buyer is til or bare ham, as NAOB prints them, and the goods are the one object. låne as read here is the temporary transfer. The Recipient cloths are a bare pronoun and til, and this page does not rank them. The printed bare buyer of selge includes ham. The printed bare recipients of låne are the pronouns in the lines above.
  • betale. Bokmålsordboka and Nynorskordboka print no Recipient: the object is the debt or the amount, and for is what the money is paid for. On låne a money object is the Theme, and the Recipient is a bare object pronoun or til.

Open items

  • til høy rente. NAOB sense 1.1 prints it on låne penger. Ibsen’s renter af en udlaant sum is the interest on a sum already lent. Neither is seated as a further argument beside Recipient and Theme. A numeral rate beside til of a person is not a dictionary line and is not constructed.
  • Bare pronoun versus til. Both are printed. Full DPs in the pronoun slot are unprinted. They are not ranked. Kan du låne meg boken? and Pat låner boken til Chris are constructed. They are not cited sentences.
  • av versus hos, på, and i. av is the person-source in Bokmålsordboka, in NAOB’s av Bernhard, and in Språkrådet. Språkrådet marks hos as muntlig stil. NAOB prints hos Foksens in Bernt Lie with no register label in the lines read. på biblioteket and i banken are places. They are not ranked against av, and they are not stacked with it in one clause read here.
  • fra of a person. Unprinted in Bokmålsordboka’s person example, in NAOB’s returnable-thing citations, and in Språkrådet’s pair. fra engelsk, fra jazzen, fra latin, fra tallet foran, and fra annen (kultur)institusjon are the printed complements. No person-fra frame is constructed, and none is starred.
  • bort in NAOB. Bokmålsordboka prints lånte bort sykkelen sin and the adverb example låne bort noe. The NAOB låne article as read prints ut and does not print bort. The two particles are not ranked.
  • ut sesongen. NAOB sense 1 prints Tollnes har lånt Odd-spilleren ut sesongen. The sense is the get reading. The player is the theme. That ut sesongen is not filed with the particle of låner ut penger.
  • har lånt ut. Unprinted. The simple perfect in Bokmålsordboka’s table is har lånt. The particle examples are present and preterite. Ibsen’s udlaant sum is attributive.
  • Pat låner ut boken. Constructed. The attested order is låner ut penger and låner ikke ut båtene sine. The participle-plus-Recipient string is unprinted. Jacobsen’s person is til folk after the boats.

Corpus filenames and sources checked

Dictionary frames: Bokmålsordboka låne, including the inflection table, and the adverb bort, as served at ordbokene.no. NAOB låne, as served at naob.no. Språkrådet, preposisjonsbruk, the Bokmål line jeg fikk låne boka av/ hos broren min. The constructed clauses are Pat låner boken til Chris, Kan du låne meg boken?, Pat låner boken av Chris, and Pat låner ut boken. Index 2 does not list låne. Norwegian Transfer in Index 2 is bytte; gi.

Records låne as one lemma: a bare object pronoun or til when the subject lends, av when the subject borrows from a person. Records fra for a word, a domain, a digit, and an institution. Records ut and bort as lend particles of the same lemma. Records the bare pronoun with no colloquial label and no regional label. Records rent as leie ut.