aber – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of aber

Noun: aber
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.aber
Pl.aber; abere

Definite

Sg.aberet
Pl.abera; aberne

Sample Sentences

  • Det er et aber med det. (There is a problem with it.)
  • – Nei, virkelig, har De ikke spist. Det var et aber: vi kunde jo ha stukket indom en restaurant (- No, really, you have not eaten. It was a difficulty: we could have stopped by a restaurant) [1908, Kristian F. Biller, Lys og Skygge:]
  • det er bare den aber at staten eier den (it is only the catch that the state owns it) [1927, Tidens Tegn:]
  • [det] kunde være enkelte abere at notere ([it] could be individual difficulties to note) [1921, Jonas Lie, Samlede Digterverker VII, page 87:]
  • [hun hadde] været forlovet – riktignok bare ni uger – men det var dog et lidet aber ([she had] been engaged - admittedly only nine weeks - but it was still a suffering difficulty) [1907, Alexander L. Kielland, Samlede værker I (Mindeutgave), page 78:]
  • det har vel sine aber det ogsaa (it probably has its difficulties too) [1879-1895, Knut Hamsun, Knut Hamsuns brev I, page 238:]
  • det eneste som måtte være et aber er at når jeg biter kjevene sammen og knusper, kjenner jeg bare de bløte gommene gli mot hverandre (the only thing that may be a difficulty is that when I bite my jaws together and crush, I only feel the soft palates slide against each other) [2010, Lars Saabye Christensen, Bernhard Hvals forsnakkelser:]

Nouns inflected like aber

vaskepulver, bilpanser, krydder, ludder, banner, pudder, pulver, panser, aber, sukker,

Etymology

From German Aber (“objection”), a substantivization of German aber (“but, however, though”) (as in "no buts and no ifs"), from Middle High German aber, aver, from Old High German aber, abur, aver, avur, afur (“however, but”), either from Proto-Germanic *afar, *abar, *abur (“after, following”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away, from”), or from Proto-Germanic *aferą (“behind”), from pre-Germanic *h₂ép-erom, accusative/allative to an adjective *h₂éperos. See: German Nouns 'Aber', German Nouns 'aber'.

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