Noun: sigt
Gender: Common, Neuter
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | sigt |
| Sg. definite | sigten; sigtet |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | sigts |
| Sg. definite | sigtens; sigtets |
Sample Sentences
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1998, Ib Ivar Dahl, Englevagt / https://books.google.dk/books?id=lJzkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155 (Even though the sight was good and the boat was approaching, I couldn't spot it.)
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Vi var på kurs op igennem Lillebælt, og sigtet var dårligt på grund af stadige byger med tågeagtig finregn. (We were sailing through Lillebælt, and the sight was bad because of the constant showers with a foggy drizzle) [2002, Claus Ahlefeldt, Så er det Egeskov, Claus!:]
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in phrases like på lang sigt or på sigt (“in the long term”), på kort sigt (“in the short term”)
Nouns inflected like sigt
dyrevelfærd,
plastic,
nikotin,
djævelskab,
carbondioxid,
falsk,
fluor,
plast,
tål,
svovl,
slang,
xenon,
alabast,
hydrogennitrat,
hedenskab,
velfærd,
kuldioxid,
desmer,
fosfor,
cobalt, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from German Sicht, from Proto-Germanic *sihtiz, cognate with English sight. Derived from the verb *sehwaną (“to see”) (Danish se). See: German Nouns '
Sicht', English Nouns '
sight'.
Verbs referencing "sigt"
English Nouns
sight.
Translations