brosjyre – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: brosjyre
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	brosjyre
Pl.	brosjyrer

Definite

Sg.	brosjyren
Pl.	brosjyrene

Sample Sentences

Kan du sende meg en brosjyre om studiet? (Can you send me a brochure about the study programme?)
en avisartikel eller en hel brochure (a newspaper article or an entire brochure) [1882, Henrik Ibsen, En folkefiende, page 72:]
en brochure av en frafalden wagnerit (a brochure by a renegade Wagnerian) [1923, Lorentz Eckhoff, Paul Verlaine og symbolismen, page 132:]
brosjyre med Jens Stoltenbergs ansikt på (a brochure with Jens Stoltenberg's face on it) [2013 August 21, Aftenposten:]

Nouns inflected like brosjyre

overtakelse, modelljernbane, seanse, overtagelse, snegle, satire, sminkebørste, salvie, sjanse, smerte, slange, sonate, single, skygge, skotte, skjede, skalle, bekreftelse, fenaknoke, sommerferie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Borrowed from French brochure (“stitched work; booklet”), originally a verbal noun of French brocher (“to stitch, bind”), from Old French brochier (“to pierce, jab”), from Old French broche (“spit, pointed tool, brooch”), from Vulgar Latin *brocca (“pointed object, spike”), from Latin broccus (“projecting, prominent”), possibly of Gaulish origin. Doublet of brosje (“brooch”) and brotsj (“reamer”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk brosjyre, Danish brochure, Swedish broschyr, German Broschüre, Dutch brochure and English brochure. See: French Nouns 'brochure', Latin Nouns 'broccus', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'brosjyre', Danish Nouns 'brochure', Swedish Nouns 'broschyr', German Nouns 'Broschüre', Dutch Nouns 'brochure', English Nouns 'brochure'.