sokn – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of sokn

Noun: sokn
Gender: Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.sokn
Pl.sokner; sokn

Definite

Sg.sokna; soknen; soknet
Pl.soknene; sokna

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like sokn

skrift, dun, dump, torv, røst, vegn, sokn,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Old Norse sókn (“search, attack; parish”), from Proto-Germanic *sōkniz (“search, inquiry”); related to søke (“to seek, search”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk sokn, Icelandic sókn, Faroese sókn, Swedish socken and Danish sogn (“parish”). Doublet of sogn (“parish”). See: Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'sokn', Icelandic Nouns 'sókn', Swedish Nouns 'socken', Danish Nouns 'sogn'.

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