b – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of b

Noun: b
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.b
Pl.b-er

Definite

Sg.b-en
Pl.b-ene

Sample Sentences

  • enhver tone er mangetydig, fiss er også gess, diss er ess, b er aiss og så videre (every tone is ambiguous, fiss is also gess, diss is ace, b is aiss and so on) [1944, Børre Qvamme, Musikk, pages 35–36:]
  • skotske sekkepiper stemmes i B (Scottish bagpipes are tuned in B) [2000, Bjørnar Pedersen og Egil Birkeland, Hillman Hunter:]
  • ingen vil påstå at notebladet med nøkler, kryss og b’er er selve musikken (no one will claim that the sheet music with clefs, sharps and flats is the music itself) [1974, Jens Bjørneboe, Haiene, page 98:]

Nouns inflected like b

DVD, a, c, b, u, t, w, v, s, y, x, bh, cv, tv, re, A, B, C, U, V, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Modification of the capital letter B by dropping its upper loop, from Latin B, from Etruscan 𐌁 (b, “be”), from Ancient Greek Β (B, “beta”), from the Phoenician 𐤁 (b, “bet”), from Proto-Canaanite , from Proto-Sinaitic , from Egyptian 𓉐, representing the plan of a house.

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