gruve – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of gruve

Noun: gruve
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.gruve
Pl.gruver

Definite

Sg.gruva; gruven
Pl.gruvene

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like gruve

krokodille, snuppe, flytebrygge, smekke, slynge, slette, skøyte, sløyfe, brennesle, skuffe, skråme, skrøne, skisse, skinke, skinne, skjære, skorpe, diamantgruve, revebjelle, øygruppe, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Inherited from Danish grube, from German Grube, which see. The form with -v- is an artificial (puristic) adaptation to the related verb grave (“to dig”), likely inspired by dialectal Norwegian gruve, gruva, a variant of the doublet grue (“fireplace, firepit”), and/or by Swedish gruva. See: Danish Nouns 'grube', Danish Nouns 'grube', German Nouns 'Grube', Swedish Nouns 'gruva'.

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