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Senses and Example SentencesBetydning og bruk

1. tettbygd område med gater, boliger, butikker og andre bygninger som er sentrum for administrasjon, kultur eller lignende;
   sted med bystatustown status, status as a town a built-up area with streets, housing, shops and other buildings that serves as a centre for administration, culture and the like;
   a place with town statusbystatus
   • bo i byen to live in the city
   • Bergen by the city of Bergen
   • flytte fra byen to move away from the city
   • Hammerfest er verdens nordligste by Hammerfest is the world's northernmost city
2. i bestemt form entall: bysentruma town centre, a city centre in the definite singular: a town centre, a city centrebysentrum
   • det går en bussrute inn til byen hvert kvarter a bus runs into the city centre every fifteen minutes
3. i bestemt form entall: innbyggerne i en by (I, 1)a city in the definite singular: the inhabitants of a cityby (I, 1)
   • hele byen var på beina the whole city was out and about
4. særlig i sammensetninger: større tettbygd område especially in compounds: a larger built-up area
   for example in words such as:for eksempel i ord som brakkebya hut settlement, a camp of huts, drabantbya satellite town, hagebya garden city, a garden suburb, hyttebya cabin village, a dense cluster of holiday cabins, studentbya student village, a student housing complex

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