tjern – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: tjern
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	tjern
Pl.	tjern; tjerner

Definite

Sg.	tjernet; tjerna; tjernen
Pl.	tjerna; tjernene

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like tjern

år, tjern, egg, skur,

Etymology

1. From Old Norse tjarn n, tjǫrn f (“small lake, pond, tarn; pool”), from Proto-Germanic *ternō (“a mountain lake without tributaries; watering hole; small pool”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split, to separate; to tear, to crack, to shatter”).
2. Cognate with Danish tjern, Swedish tjärn, Icelandic tjörn, Faroese tjørn and English tarn. See: Swedish Nouns 'tjärn', Icelandic Nouns 'tjörn', Faroese Nouns 'tjørn', English Nouns 'tarn'.

Verbs referencing "tjern"

English Nouns tarn.