grave – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: grave
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	grave
Pl.	graver

Definite

Sg.	graven
Pl.	gravene

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like grave

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 French grave (“serious, low-pitched; back”), from Middle French grave, from Old French grave, from Latin gravis (“heavy, grave, serious”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us (“heavy”), from *gʷreh₂- (“heavy”) + *-us (forms adjectives). See: French Nouns 'grave', Latin Nouns 'gravis'.