Noun: morgen
| Singular | morgen |
| Plural | morgen; morgens |
Sample Sentences
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‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’ [1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 68:]
Nouns inflected like morgen
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Dutch morgen and German Morgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning. Doublet of morn and morrow. See: Dutch Nouns '
morgen', German Nouns '
Morgen'.