tre – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: tre
Gender: Neuter Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	tre
Pl.	tre; trær

Definite

Sg.	treet
Pl.	trea; trærne

Sample Sentences

Dette bordet er lagd av tre. (This table is made of wood.)

Nouns inflected like tre

appelsintre, nedfallstre, eiketre, epletre, frukttre, tre, kne, almetre, kakaotre, lønnetre, abildtre, løvtre, bartre, oliventre, kirsebærtre, stamtre, palmetre,

Etymology

1. From Old Norse tré (“tree; beam”), from Proto-Germanic *trewą (“tree”), from pre-Germanic *dréwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”), possibly from *drew- (“hard, firm, strong, solid”).
2. The plurals trær and trærne are derived from Danish træ. See: Old Norse Nouns 'tré', Danish Nouns 'træ'.