ånde – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: ånde
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	ånde
Pl.	ånder

Definite

Sg.	ånden
Pl.	åndene

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like ånde

overtakelse, modelljernbane, seanse, overtagelse, snegle, satire, sminkebørste, salvie, sjanse, smerte, slange, sonate, single, skygge, skotte, skjede, skalle, bekreftelse, fenaknoke, sommerferie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Danish ånde (“breath”), from Old Danish andæ, from Old Norse andi (“breath; spirit, soul”), from Proto-Germanic *anadô (“breath; spirit, zeal”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-dʰō, from *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”), likely of onomatopoeic origin. See: Old Norse Nouns 'andi'.