Noun: hygge
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | hygge |
| Sg. definite | hyggen |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | hygges |
| Sg. definite | hyggens |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like hygge
tuberkulose,
humanisme,
ionosfære,
urinsyre,
empirisme,
tristesse,
betagelse,
gudsdyrkelse,
fascisme,
cellelære,
fotosyntese,
medfølelse,
anseelse,
kolonialisme,
nationalsocialisme,
elmesyge,
idoldyrkelse,
afgudsdyrkelse,
kyndelmisse,
sukkersyge, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Danish hyggiæ (“to think”), from Old Norse hyggja (“to think”), from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną (“to think, reconsider”).
2. The modern meaning has been taken over from Norwegian in the 19th century. See: Old Norse Nouns '
hyggja'.
Verbs referencing "hygge"
English Nouns
hygge, French Nouns
hygge.
Translations