fabel – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of fabel

Noun: fabel
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.fabel
Pl.fabler

Definite

Sg.fabelen
Pl.fablene

Sample Sentences

  • fabelen om hauken og nattergalen (the fable of the hawk and the nightingale) [2008, Atle Sperre Hermansen, Vikariatet:]
  • vi [har] valgt å se teksten som en slags moralsk fabel forkledd som pikaresk roman (we [have] chosen to regard the text as a kind of moral fable disguised as a picaresque novel) [2011, Tor Åge Bringsværd, Slipp håndtaket når du vrir:]
  • saa melder sagnets fabel (thus speaks the tale of legend) [1919, Nils Collett Vogt, Digte i utvalg, page 83:]
  • når man begynner å gjøre bibelens sannheter til fabler, så rakner snart det hele (when one begins turning the truths of the Bible into fables, the whole thing soon unravels) [1932, Tidens Tegn, number 29, page 1, column 7:]
  • han serverede med uforlignelig Sikkerhed de vildeste Fabler (he told the wildest tales with incomparable confidence) [1881, Kristian Elster, chapter VI, in Farlige Folk:]
  • der må rygges ved den fabelen om de styrendes ufejlbarhed (that myth about the infallibility of those in power must be challenged) [1882, Henrik Ibsen, En folkefiende, page 51:]
  • de tusentalls våte fiskeskrønene som fortelles hvert år, og utallige fablene om enorme – eller tvert om elendige bær- og soppforekomster (the thousands of tall fishing tales told every year, and the countless stories about enormous—or, conversely, dreadful—supplies of berries and mushrooms) [2015 October 12, Nationen, pages 18–19:]
  • i antikken betydde oikoumene den bebodde verden, det vil si alt som ikke var fablenes, monstrenes og barbarenes domene (in antiquity, oikoumene meant the inhabited world, that is, everything outside the domain of fables, monsters and barbarians) [2025, Christine Amadou, Bysantinerne, page 16:]
  • [fremstilt under en annen synsvinkel] vilde romanens fabel vært en tragedie, som vilde talt til oss og endog virket berikende ([presented from another point of view], the novel's plot would have been a tragedy that would have spoken to us and even had an enriching effect) [1932, Alv G. Schjelderup, Samtiden, page 49:]
  • han var ennå ikke villig til å gi avkall på fabelen, eller plottet, som et dramaturgisk strukturerende element (he was not yet willing to relinquish the storyline, or plot, as a dramaturgically structuring element) [2009, Øyvind Berg, Poesi og lærepenger:]

Etymology

1. Borrowed from Latin fābula (“conversation, narrative, tale, fable; play”), literally “something spoken or told”, formed from the verbal stem fā- (“speak, say”) of for (“to speak, say”) and -bula (“instrument- or result-noun suffix”). The verbal element is from Proto-Italic *fāōr (“to speak”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti (“to speak”), an athematic present formed from the root *bʰeh₂- (“to speak, say”); the suffix continues *-dʰlom (“instrument- or result-noun suffix”).
2. The broad senses of Latin fābula included conversation, report, narrative, story and dramatic work, helping to account for the Norwegian senses “fable”, “story” and “plot”. Doublet of fabula (“fable; narrated sequence of events”).
3. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk fabel, Danish fabel, Swedish fabel, German Fabel, Dutch fabel, English fable, French fable, Spanish fábula, Portuguese fábula, Italian favola, Polish fabuła and Romanian fabulă (“fable, tale”). See: Latin Nouns 'fābula', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'fabel', Danish Nouns 'fabel', Swedish Nouns 'fabel', German Nouns 'Fabel', Dutch Nouns 'fabel', English Nouns 'fable', French Nouns 'fable', Spanish Nouns 'fábula', Portuguese Nouns 'fábula', Italian Nouns 'favola', Polish Nouns 'fabuła', Romanian Nouns 'fabulă'.

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