This is the 17th most frequent Norwegian word.
hadde
"Hadde" means "had" in English.
The word 'hadde' is used in the past tense to indicate possession that occurred in the past.
Hun hadde en katt.
She had a cat.
Here, 'hadde' functions as part of a conditional past tense, expressing a hypothetical situation that did not occur.
Om jeg bare hadde visst det!
If only I had known that!
In this sentence, 'hadde' is used as an auxiliary verb to form the past perfect tense, indicating that an action was completed before another past action.