Noun: blomst
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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En plante er ofte bygget opp av en rot, stengel, blad og blomst. (A plant is often composed of a root, stalk, leaf and flower.)
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Det var en perfekt dag for å plukke blomster. (It was a perfect day to pick flowers.)
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Trærne står i full blomst. (The trees are in full blossom.)
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De er selve blomsten av fotballaget. (They are the very flower of the football team.)
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Den skjønneste jordens blomst er smilet. (Henrik Wergeland) (The most beautiful flower on Earth is a smile.)
Nouns inflected like blomst
tjuendedag,
billettautomat,
bestevenn,
synops,
syklon,
syklus,
abiturient,
forsnevring,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
lekeplass,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
sefard,
seilas,
sektor,
sement,
sensor,
sensur, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Danish blomst (“flower”), from the older blomster (“flower”) (not to be confused with the modern indefinite plural form), from Old Norse blómstr (“flower”), from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”), from *blōaną (“to bloom, flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to bloom, flower”).
2. Cognate with Dutch bloesem, bloem, German Blume and English blossom. See: Danish Nouns '
blomst', Old Norse Nouns '
blómstr', Dutch Nouns '
bloesem', German Nouns '
Blume', English Nouns '
blossom'.
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