frøken – Danish noun declension

Noun: frøken
Gender: Common Hyphenation:

Nominative

Sg. indefinite	frøken
Sg. definite	frøkenen
Pl. indefinite	frøkener; frøkner
Pl. definite	frøkenerne; frøknerne

Genitive

Sg. indefinite	frøkens
Sg. definite	frøkenens
Pl. indefinite	frøkeners; frøkners
Pl. definite	frøkenernes; frøknernes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like frøken

sandørken, ørken, orden, frøken, fyraften,

Etymology

1. From Middle Low German vrouweken, vrouken, a diminutive of vrouwe, vruwe, from Old Saxon frūa.
2. Cognate with German Frau (“woman”), Dutch vrouwe (“lady”), vrouw (“woman”) (Danish frue, fru and Swedish fru are borrowed from Low German). For the semantic development of the diminutive, compare German Fräulein (“Ms.”). See: German Nouns 'Frau', Dutch Nouns 'vrouwe', Danish Nouns 'frue', Swedish Nouns 'fru', German Nouns 'Fräulein'.

Verbs referencing "frøken"

Faroese Nouns frøkun.