neger – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of neger

Noun: neger
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.neger
Pl.negere; negre; negrer

Definite

Sg.negeren
Pl.negerne; negrene

Sample Sentences

  • svart kan ligne både prest og neger (black can resemble both priest and Negro) [1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 224:]
  • det meget omstridte og omdiskuterte spørsmål om «Civil Rights», borgerrettigheter for negrene (the highly controversial and much-discussed question of “Civil Rights”, civil rights for Negroes) [1948, Samtiden, page 388:]
  • rasehatet mot negre (racial hatred against Black people) [1978, Sonja Hagemann, Barnelitteratur i Norge III, page 108:]
  • Ravensberg anbefaler Munch å engasjere en riktig brav og tiltalende neger, Sultan Abdul Karim, som tjener, kusk og modell (Ravensberg recommends that Munch hire a truly fine and appealing Black man, Sultan Abdul Karim, as servant, coachman, and model) [1993, Ketil Bjørnstad, Historien om Edvard Munch, page 415:]
  • jobbe/slite som en neger (to work extremely hard; to work like a slave)
  • jeg skal slite og henge i som en neger og legge til side hver minste skillemynt (I will toil and work like a slave and put aside every smallest coin.) [1989, Bergljot Hobæk Haff, Den guddommelige tragedie, page 10:]
  • svart som en neger (very dark; black as pitch)
  • han stikker hodet ned i en bilmotor og kommer opp igjen svart som en neger (He sticks his head down into a car engine and comes back up pitch-black.) [1991, Jostein Gaarder, Sofies verden, page 26:]
  • er tilbake [fra arbeid] om en halvtime … har negre nok til å jobbe for meg (will be back [from work] in half an hour … I have enough drudges to work for me.) [1988, Sverre Udnæs, Dramatikk 1964–1982, page 336:]
  • under krigen gikk [Robert E. Sherwood] inn i Roosevelts personlige tjeneste som «neger» for en stor del av de mange taler han måtte holde men som han selv ikke kunne utarbeide (During the war, [Robert E. Sherwood] entered Roosevelt's personal service as a “ghostwriter” for many of the speeches he had to give but could not write himself.) [1948 December 31, Dagbladet, page 7:]
  • farven paa hænderne var ogsaa nærmest neger (the colour of the hands was also almost black.) [1903, Otto Sverdrup, Nyt Land, volume I, page 471:]

Etymology

1. Borrowed from German Neger (“Negro, Black person”), from French nègre (“Negro, Black person”), from Spanish negro (“black”) or Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin niger (“black”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk neger, Danish neger, Swedish neger, Dutch neger, German Neger and English negro (“dated or offensive term for a Black person”). See: German Nouns 'Neger', French Nouns 'nègre', Spanish Nouns 'negro', Portuguese Nouns 'negro', Latin Nouns 'niger', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'neger', Danish Nouns 'neger', Swedish Nouns 'neger', Dutch Nouns 'neger', German Nouns 'Neger', English Nouns 'negro'.

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