lunsj – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of lunsj

Noun: lunsj
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.lunsj
Pl.lunsjer

Definite

Sg.lunsjen
Pl.lunsjene

Sample Sentences

  • spise varm lunsj (to eat a hot lunch)
  • være (ute) til lunsj (to be away from one's workplace eating lunch)
  • det var gagedag idag, og da tager jeg mig gjerne en liden lunch med Markus Olivarius (it was payday today, and on such days I gladly have a little lunch with Markus Olivarius) [1891, Arne Garborg, Trætte Mænd, page 188:]
  • nå drakk han lunsj (now he drank his lunch) [1950, Bernhard Borge, Skjult mønster, page 175:]
  • den tidligere stavemåten [av lunch før 1959-normalen] lunsj (og lunsje) var … fonetisk meningsløs; skulle skriftbildet motsvare uttalen, måtte det jo være lønsj (og lønsje) (the spelling lunsj (and lunsje), replacing the earlier lunch, was … phonetically meaningless; if the written form were to correspond to the pronunciation, it would have to be lønsj (and lønsje)) [1964, André Bjerke, Sproget som ikke vil dø, page 73:]
  • plutselig spurte Katta om jeg ville bli med henne hjem til ’lunch’. Jeg ante ikke hva lunch var, men svarte ja (suddenly Katta asked whether I wanted to come home with her for “lunch”. I had no idea what lunch was, but said yes) [2000, Karin Sveen, Klassereise:]
  • jeg hadde en lang og ubehagelig lunsj med en av de ansatte i dag (I had a long and unpleasant lunch with one of the employees today) [2004, Herman Willis, St. Olav:]
  • man arbeidet hele dagen, bare avbrutt av en varm lunsj og obligatorisk siesta i ett-tiden (they worked all day, interrupted only by a hot lunch and a compulsory siesta around one o'clock) [2005, Merete Morken Andersen, Mandel, page 138:]
  • hun forsvant noen minutter for å kjøpe lunsj til oss alle tre (she disappeared for a few minutes to buy lunch for all three of us) [2010, Tor Edvin Dahl, Hodet ved døra:]
  • i lunsjen gikk jeg til gullsmeden vis-à-vis Sushi & Coffee (during my lunch break I went to the jeweller's opposite Sushi & Coffee) [2008, Jo Nesbø, Hodejegerne:]
  • skal vi ses her på benken i lunsjen da? (shall we meet here on the bench during the lunch break, then?) [2015, Ingvild H. Rishøi, La stå, page 57:]

Nouns inflected like lunsj

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

1. Borrowed from English lunch (“midday meal”). In its meal sense, the English word is probably a shortening of luncheon (“light midday meal”); its deeper origin is uncertain. English lunch originally referred to a piece or hunk of food before developing its modern meal sense.
2. The English spelling lunch is attested in Norwegian at least by 1891. The Norwegianized spelling lunsj was probably fixed by the 1917 orthographic reform and was the only form listed in a 1919 Riksmål wordlist. It is the only spelling accepted in the current official Bokmål norm. See: English Nouns 'lunch'.

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