How does Norwegian title case differ from English?

English title case capitalises most words. Norwegian capitalises only the first word of a title plus proper nouns. Ordinary nouns, adjectives and verbs stay lowercase, so it looks much closer to ordinary sentence case.

Do Bokmål and Nynorsk use the same rule?

Yes. Both written standards of Norwegian follow the same capitalisation convention for titles: initial word plus proper nouns only. The rule does not depend on which standard you write in.

Which words count as proper nouns?

Names of people, places, organisations, brands and similar (Norge, Oslo, NRK) stay capitalised. The tool capitalises a built-in list of common ones; any name it does not recognise should be capitalised by hand afterwards.

Are days and months capitalised?

No. In Norwegian, weekday names, month names, nationalities and languages (mandag, januar, norsk) are written in lowercase, so they are not capitalised inside a title unless they begin it.

Norwegian Title Case

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Norwegian title case is far simpler than English title case. In both Bokmål and Nynorsk, a title capitalises only its first word together with genuine proper nouns. Everything else — nouns, adjectives, verbs — stays lowercase, so a Norwegian headline looks much like an ordinary sentence.

How it works

The tool walks through your text token by token:

The first letter-bearing word is capitalised.
Any word matching the built-in proper-noun list (for example Norge, Oslo, NRK) keeps its capital form.
Every other word is lowercased.

Punctuation and spacing are preserved, so dashes, colons and commas pass through untouched.

Tips and notes

Remember that Norwegian writes weekdays, months, nationalities and languages in lowercase — mandag, januar, norsk — so they are not capitalised mid-title. Because no automatic list can know every name, capitalise any unrecognised proper noun yourself after running the tool. For body text, the same first-word-plus-proper-noun rule already matches normal sentence case.