Noun: pige
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | pige |
| Sg. definite | pigen |
| Pl. indefinite | piger |
| Pl. definite | pigerne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | piges |
| Sg. definite | pigens |
| Pl. indefinite | pigers |
| Pl. definite | pigernes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like pige
toiletbørste,
krokodille,
svensknøgle,
nissehue,
overtagelse,
snurre,
snitte,
snerle,
snerre,
snerpe,
satire,
meddelelse,
sjuske,
sminke,
smerte,
slippe,
slange,
slette,
skøjte,
sonate, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare (late) Old Norse píka, Swedish piga. Possibly borrowed from Finnish piika (“maid, girl”) (or the other way around). See: Old Norse Nouns '
píka', Swedish Nouns '
piga', Finnish Nouns '
piika'.
Verbs referencing "pige"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
pike, Swedish Nouns
piga, Icelandic Nouns
píka, Icelandic Nouns
pía.
Translations