Noun: kæft
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | kæft |
| Sg. definite | kæften |
| Pl. indefinite | kæfter |
| Pl. definite | kæfterne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | kæfts |
| Sg. definite | kæftens |
| Pl. indefinite | kæfters |
| Pl. definite | kæfternes |
Sample Sentences
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Han skal katten-kløme byde saadan, at de andre Auktionsgæster hver og jen nok skal holde deres Kæfter lukkede! (He shall certainly bid so that everyone else attending the auction shall keep their mouths shut!) [1925, Gads danske magasin:]
Nouns inflected like kæft
deaktivering,
etablering,
sfinks,
fortovscafé,
desinficering,
sektor,
sekant,
kreation,
sadist,
emulsion,
affirmation,
kreditor,
smiley,
solgud,
soldat,
indvending,
fysioterapi,
shogun,
sheikh,
shaman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Danish kiæft, from Old Norse kjaptr, from Proto-Germanic *kebutaz. Cognate with Swedish käft, Norwegian kjeft, Icelandic kjaftur, and Faroese kjaftur. Related to kæbe and kaje. See: Old Norse Nouns '
kjaptr', Swedish Nouns '
käft', Icelandic Nouns '
kjaftur', Faroese Nouns '
kjaftur'.
Verbs referencing "kæft"
Icelandic Nouns
kjaftur, Swedish Nouns
käft, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
kjeft.
Translations