ordbok – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of ordbok

Noun: ordbok
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.ordbok
Pl.ordbøker

Definite

Sg.ordboka; ordboken
Pl.ordbøkene

Sample Sentences

  • Jeg slo opp ordet i ordboka. (I looked the word up in the dictionary.)
  • Hun bruker en norsk-engelsk ordbok. (She uses a Norwegian–English dictionary.)
  • [Dylan Thomas’] overdådig rike sprog som tvinger en nordmann til stadig å ty – undertiden forgjeves – til ordboken ([Dylan Thomas's] extraordinarily rich language, which forces a Norwegian continually—sometimes in vain—to resort to the dictionary) [1964, Lorentz Eckhoff, En verden, page 103:]
  • en ordbok har ordartikler, ikke bare opplisting av ord som viser staving og bøying (a dictionary has word entries, not merely a listing of words showing spelling and inflection) [1995, Bøygen, number 4, page 49:]
  • [han] bladde i ordbøkene sine [før han skulle skrive låter] ([he] leafed through his dictionaries [before writing songs]) [1997, Morten Jørgensen, Kongen av København, page 45:]
  • i 1746 begynte [Samuel] Johnson på sitt livsverk, nemlig å utarbeide en ordbok for det engelske språk (in 1746 [Samuel] Johnson began his life's work, namely compiling a dictionary of the English language) [2004, Karsten Alnæs, Historien om Europa 2, page 305:]
  • folk bruker ordbok altfor lite (people use dictionaries far too little) [2007 May 15, Nationen, page 21:]
  • det tok [Samuel Johnson] ni år å lage ordboken, som inneholdt rundt 43 000 ord og 114 000 sitater (it took [Samuel Johnson] nine years to make the dictionary, which contained around 43,000 words and 114,000 quotations) [2016, Kristin Bech, Fra englisc til English, page 175:]

Etymology

1. Calque of German Wörterbuch (“dictionary”), equivalent to ord (“word”) + bok (“book”), literally “word-book”. The first element is from Old Norse orð (“word”), from Proto-Germanic *wurdą (“word”), from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word”), from *werh₁- (“to speak, say”). The second element is from Old Norse bók (“book”), from Proto-Germanic *bōks (“letter, written message, book”); its further origin is uncertain.
2. Compare the parallel formations Norwegian Nynorsk ordbok, Danish ordbog, Swedish ordbok, Icelandic orðabók, Faroese orðabók, German Wörterbuch and Dutch woordenboek (“dictionary”). See: German Nouns 'Wörterbuch', Old Norse Nouns 'orð', Old Norse Nouns 'bók', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'ordbok', Danish Nouns 'ordbog', Swedish Nouns 'ordbok', Icelandic Nouns 'orðabók', Faroese Nouns 'orðabók', German Nouns 'Wörterbuch', Dutch Nouns 'woordenboek'.

Verbs referencing "ordbok"

German Nouns Wörterbuch.

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