gift – Swedish noun declension

Noun: gift
Hyphenation:

Gender:

Nominative

Sg. Indef.	gift
Sg. Def.	giftet; giften
Pl. Indef.	gifter
Pl. Def.	gifterna

Genitive

Sg. Indef.	gifts
Sg. Def.	giftets; giftens
Pl. Indef.	gifters
Pl. Def.	gifternas

Sample Sentences

Rådd-djuret gråter, sade Joxaren förebrående. Spöket har målat en dödskalle på kaffeburken och skrivit GIFT under och nu är Rådd-djuret utom sig och säger att har det inte gift sig förut så kommer det nu absolut aldrig att göra det! ("The Muddler is crying," said the Joxter reproachfully. "The ghost has painted a skull and crossbones and the word POISON on the Muddler's coffee tin, and now the Muddler is beside himself and says that if it has not gotten married before it will absolutely never do it!") [1968, Tove Jansson, Muminpappans memoarer, Holger Schildts Förlag, published 1991, →ISBN, page 126:]

Nouns inflected like gift

vitamin, gift,

Etymology

From German Gift (“poison”), from Middle High German gift f (“gift, present”), Old High German gift f (“gift”), from Proto-West Germanic *gifti, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz, which is a derivation of *gebaną (“to give”). See: German Nouns 'Gift'.