abort – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: abort
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	abort
Pl.	aborter

Definite

Sg.	aborten
Pl.	abortene

Sample Sentences

illegal abort (illegal abortion)
provosert abort (provoked abortion)
ha en abort (have an abortion)
ta abort (induce abortion)
habituell abort (habitual abortion (the miscarriage of 3 or more consecutive pregnancies))
mange mene, at hensigten [med attentatet] kun har været at forskrække dronningen og derved foraarsage en abort (many believe that the intention [of the assassination] was only to frighten the queen and thereby cause an abortion) [1840 June 23, Den Norske Rigstidende, page 2:]
hun havde hørt, at ægteskaber, hvori det første svangerskab endte med abort, som oftest bleve barnløse (she had heard that marriages in which the first pregnancy ended in abortion often became childless) [1977, Conrad N. Schwach, Erindringer af mit Liv indtil Ankomsten til Throndhjem, page 298:]
min kone, som efter aborten længe havde været svag, blev frisk igjen (my wife, who had been weak for a long time after the abortion, recovered) [1977, Conrad N. Schwach, Erindringer af mit Liv indtil Ankomsten til Throndhjem, page 295:]
maleriet [var ikke] noe maleri i det hele tatt, men en abort (the painting [was] not a painting at all, but an abortion) [1996, Ketil Bjørnstad, Historien om Edvard Munch, page 337:]
foreta en abort (perform an abortion)
kjønnsbetinget abort (gendered abortion)
selvbestemt abort (self-determined abortion (artificial abortion that a pregnant woman may require performed by the end of the 12th week of pregnancy, according to Norwegian law))
foreldrene sendte ham to tusen kroner og det ble ordnet med illegal abort (his parents sent him two thousand kroner and an illegal abortion was arranged) [1973, Tor Edvin Dahl, Guds tjener, page 136:]
hun var helt desperat av redsel for at hun ikke skulle få innvilget aborten (she was desperate for fear that she would not be granted an abortion) [1975, Liv Køltzow, Historien om Eli, page 119:]
Brita var en av foregangskvinnene for selvbestemt abort (Brita was one of the pioneers of self-determined abortion) [1976, Mette Hansen, Kasino, page 33:]
de sterkeste og mest innflytelsesrike motstandere av selvbestemt abort (the strongest and most influential opponents of self-determined abortion) [1990, Kåre Willoch, Statsminister, page 53:]

Nouns inflected like abort

tjuendedag, billettautomat, bestevenn, synops, syklon, syklus, abiturient, forsnevring, kroppsdel, snøbre, lekeplass, sesjon, sesong, septim, sefard, seilas, sektor, sement, sensor, sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Latin abortus (“premature delivery, abortion; miscarriage”), perfect active participle of aborior (“to disappear; to miscarry, be aborted (of a baby)”), a compound from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from orior (“to rise, appear, be born”), from Proto-Italic *oriōr, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir, rise, spring”). See: Latin Nouns 'abortus'.