Noun: helvete
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | helvetet |
| Pl. | helveta; helvetene |
Sample Sentences
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Noen tror de fordømte kommer til helvete. (Some people believe that the damned are sent to hell.)
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Tonight I stand here in Christ's stead, it's for sure that I am speaking to many who know they are not converted tonight. You know that if you fell dead to the floor in this very moment, you would fall straight to hell. [I kveld står jeg her i Kristi sted, jeg taler sikkert til mange i kveld som vet de er uomvendte. Du vet at om du stupte død om på gulvet i dette øyeblikk, så stupte du like i helvete. (from Norwegian Wikiquote, said by Ole Hallesby (1879 - 1961))]
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Jeg drar aldri til det stedet igjen, det var et helvete. (I'm never going to that place again, it was like hell.)
Nouns inflected like helvete
smykke,
panoramabilde,
skifte,
skille,
sjekkhefte,
grenseområde,
ettermæle,
klasseværelse,
nærbilde,
byggemateriale,
øyevitne,
vannskille,
baksete,
utbytte,
regjeringssete,
hårfeste,
årsskifte,
regjeringsskifte,
samtykke,
samvirke, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse helvíti ("Hell"), compound word of hel, Hel ("the goddess of the realm of the dead") (itself from Proto-Germanic *haljō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”)) and víti ("punishment"). Compare Swedish helvete, Danish helvede, Icelandic helvíti, Old High German hellawîzi, Old Saxon helliwīti and Old English hellewīte. See: Old Norse Nouns '
helvíti', Swedish Nouns '
helvete', Danish Nouns '
helvede', Icelandic Nouns '
helvíti', Old English Nouns '
hellewīte'.
Verbs referencing "helvete"
Swedish Nouns
helvete.
Translations