sogn – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: sogn
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	sogn
Pl.	sogn

Definite

Sg.	sognet
Pl.	sognene; sogna

Sample Sentences

[du] slås med sognets værste fanter ([you] fight with the parish's worst vagabonds) [1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 14:]
skik [ungen] på sognet (send [the child] to the parish for poor relief) [1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 81:]
gaarden Møglestue i nærheden af Lillesand var i fordums dage tingsted for de omliggende sogne (In former times, Møglestue farm near Lillesand was the assembly site for the surrounding parishes.) [1909, Henrik Ibsen, Efterladte Skrifter, volume I, page 474:]
kom sjel og sjaa om du kan faa i hele sognet magen (Come and see whether you can find its equal in the entire parish.) [1918, Vilhelm Krag, Sange fra min ø, page 66:]
skulle han, sognets prest, nå bli skyldig i at pesten rammet hans menighet? (Was he, the parish priest, now to be responsible for the plague striking his congregation?) [2002, Vibeke Løkkeberg, Purpur:]
kongen [utstedte] et dekret i 1698 som foreskrev obligatorisk undervisning i alle sogn i landet (In 1698, the king issued a decree prescribing compulsory education in every parish in the country.) [2004, Karsten Alnæs, Historien om Europa 2:]
det bodde ikke flere 14-åringer i sognet enn at de ble konfirmert samtidig alle sammen (There were so few fourteen-year-olds in the parish that they were all confirmed together.) [2008, Torun Lian, Undrene i vår familie:]
fattigfolk og tatere ville man ofte ikke ha i kirkeboka, for da kunne de peke på sognet som et fødested eller et hjemsted hvor fattigkassa dermed var forpliktet til å ta seg av dem når de ble gamle (Poor people and Travellers were often excluded from the church register, since they could then identify the parish as their birthplace or home and thereby oblige its poor-relief fund to care for them in old age.) [2010, Britt Karin Larsen, Himmelbjørnens skog:]
i noen sogn kunne den situasjon oppstå at det var to prester, den presten som hadde nedlagt sitt embede, og den nye tids prest (In some parishes, a situation could arise in which there were two priests: the priest who had resigned his office and the priest of the new era.) [2013, Jan Jakob Tønseth, Prosten:]
i Kirkeloven av 1851 var det krav om at tre tiendedeler av befolkningen i et sogn skulle kunne få plass i kirken (The Church Act of 1851 required the church to have room for three-tenths of a parish's population.) [2018, Peter Butenschøn, Husimellom, page 167:]
her finnes da vel andre enn Eva Volden i Sandhavn sogn (Surely there are others besides Eva Volden in Sandhavn parish.) [1991, Terje Stigen, Fyrholmen:]
[den månedlige husleien] var mye for en leilighet i Fagerborg sogn, men så var det en flunkende ny ([The monthly rent] was a lot for an apartment in the Fagerborg district, but then it was brand-new.) [2003, Espen Søbye, Kathe, alltid vært i Norge:]
hele sognet skal mig tilfode falde (the entire parish shall fall at my feet) [1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 43:]
[ved begravelsen] fulgte det hele sogn ([At the funeral,] the entire parish followed.) [1907, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons Fortællinger, page 196:]

Nouns inflected like sogn

stjerneras, sogn,

Etymology

1. Borrowed from Danish sogn (“parish”), from Old Danish sōkn (“lawsuit; parish”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sōkniz (“search, inquiry”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sokn, Icelandic sókn, Faroese sókn and Swedish socken (“parish”). Doublet of sokn (“underwater-searching tool; parish”). See: Danish Nouns 'sogn', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'sokn', Icelandic Nouns 'sókn', Swedish Nouns 'socken'.