Noun: mann
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Det sitter tre menn og to kvinner i styret. (There are three men and two women on the board.)
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Den vanlige mann (The man in the street, the ordinary citizen)
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Gå ned med mann og mus (Be lost with all hands)
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Være mann nok for (Be a man enough for)
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Være en mann (Be a man)
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Hun mistet mannen sin i en ulykke for tre år siden. (She lost her husband in an accident three years ago.)
Nouns inflected like mann
mann,
Etymology
From Danish mand (pre-1907 Riksmål spelling), from Old Norse mann, accusative case of maðr (“man”) (compare the accusative of Icelandic maður). Originally the word only had the sense "human" but later changed to primarily designate an adult male, the original meaning being replaced by words such as menneske and person. Believed to ultimately be from Proto-Germanic *mann-, stemming from the Proto-Indo-European *man- (a root). Cognate with Swedish man, Danish mand, Faroese and Icelandic maður, English man and many others. See: Danish Nouns '
mand', Old Norse Nouns '
mann', Icelandic Nouns '
maður', Swedish Nouns '
man', Danish Nouns '
mand', Icelandic Nouns '
maður', English Nouns '
man'.
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