Noun: flagermus
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | flagermus |
| Sg. definite | flagermusen |
| Pl. indefinite | flagermus |
| Pl. definite | flagermusene |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | flagermus' |
| Sg. definite | flagermusens |
| Pl. indefinite | flagermus' |
| Pl. definite | flagermusenes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like flagermus
væggelus,
minimajs,
is,
babymajs,
blues,
clips,
krebs,
lus,
mus,
spidsmus,
dværgmus,
husmus,
flagermus,
tagetes,
fredløs,
vaniljeis,
kapers,
laks,
majs,
kiks, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
After or from Middle Low German vledermus, a combination of flager (“flit, flap, flutter”) and mus (“mouse”). For the first element compare English flounder and Swedish fladdra. Cognate with Swedish fladdermus and Norwegian Bokmål flaggermus, and German Fledermaus, whose first word derives from Proto-Germanic *fifaldǭ. See: English Nouns '
flounder', Swedish Nouns '
fladdermus', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
flaggermus', German Nouns '
Fledermaus'.
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