ball – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: ball
Gender: Masculine, Neuter Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	ball
Pl.	baller; ball

Definite

Sg.	ballen; ballet
Pl.	ballene; balla

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like ball

bordell, utedass, beredskap, kjøkkenredskap, kjennskap, nomenklatur, spindelvev, artefakt, slektskap, astrakan, hengelås, chateau, trygdemisbruk, ondskap, glidelås, snøkrystall, do, fe, mo, eksem, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From dialectal Norwegian, from Old Norse bǫllr, from Proto-Germanic *balluz. Displaced Danish bold, which was excluded from the standard already in 1907. The establishment of the Norwegian form may have been facilitated by the fact that Danish also has bal c (“billiard ball”), a borrowing from French balle f. See: Old Norse Nouns 'bǫllr', Danish Nouns 'bold', French Nouns 'balle'.