Noun: avgrunn
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | avgrunnen |
| Pl. | avgrunnene |
Sample Sentences
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Fjellklatreren gled og falt ned i avgrunnen. (The mountaineer slipped and fell into the chasm.)
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De fordømte skal fortapes i avgrunnens pine. (The damned shall perish in the suffering of the abyss.)
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When standing safely, it's easy enough to look down into the abyss. [Det er lett nok å se ned i avgrunnen, når du står trygt. (Marit Tusvik)]
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Det var en avgrunn mellom deres synspunkter. (There was a huge gap between their points of view.)
Nouns inflected like avgrunn
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
Compound word, av (“off”) + grunn (“ground”), loan-translation from Middle Low German [Term?] (compare with German Abgrund). See: German Nouns '
Abgrund'.
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