middag – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of middag

Noun: middag
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.middag
Pl.middager

Definite

Sg.middagen
Pl.middagene

Sample Sentences

  • Vi møtes ved middag. (We will meet around noon.)
  • sann middag ((astronomy) apparent solar noon; the moment when the centre of the Sun reaches its upper culmination)
  • middelmiddag ((astronomy) mean solar noon; the passage of the mean Sun across a standard meridian)
  • ikke huske fra tolv til middag (to be extremely forgetful, literally “not remember from twelve to noon”)
  • i middags ((now rare) around noon earlier the same day)
  • han vil selv komme herop henimod middag (he himself will come up here towards noon) [1882, Henrik Ibsen, En folkefiende, page 41:]
  • stormen havde været nogenlunde moderat til over middag (the storm had been fairly moderate until after noon) [1882, Alexander Kielland, Skipper Worse, page 303:]
  • hende traf jeg så flygtig i middags (I met her only briefly around noon today) [1890, Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, page 113:]
  • han gjenkjendte sagerne og mindtes episoden fra i middags (he recognized the things and remembered the incident from around noon) [1914, Rudolf Muus, Maggi West, eller Solgt til hvid Slavinde, page 278:]
  • Hva skal vi ha til middag? (What are we having for dinner?)
  • Vi spiser middag sammen hver dag. (We eat dinner together every day.)
  • god middag! (a traditional farewell used shortly before dinner or when someone is going home for dinner)
  • sove/hvile middag (to nap or rest after dinner)
  • vi holdt vor middag under åben himmel, vi to (the two of us ate our dinner in the open air) [1899, Henrik Ibsen, Når vi døde vågner, page 84:]
  • – Vil du spise middag hos mig? spurte hun. – Jeg har komfyr og steller selv (“Would you have dinner at my place?” she asked. “I have a stove and cook for myself.”) [1933, Peter Bendow, Med egen inngang, page 23:]
  • når det hender at hun kommer tidlig hjem, og vi lager middag og spiser sammen, tar vi gjerne en vinflaske til maten (when she happens to come home early and we make and eat dinner together, we often have a bottle of wine with the food) [1988, Knut Faldbakken, Bad boy:]
  • til middag er det rensdyrstek, og det er sviskegrøt til dessert (dinner is roast reindeer, with prune pudding for dessert) [1991, Olav Angell, Oslo i skumring:]
  • jeg var hos en kompis og spiste middag der (I was at a friend's house and ate dinner there) [2015, Ingvild H. Rishøi, La stå, page 65:]
  • hun hakket løk og gulrøtter til middag (she chopped onions and carrots for dinner) [2016, Marie Aubert, Kan jeg bli med deg hjem, page 109:]
  • Det ble holdt en stor middag til ære for prisvinneren. (A grand dinner was held in honour of the prizewinner.)
  • De skal da vel i den store middag? (Surely you are going to the grand dinner?) [1874, Henrik Ibsen, De unges forbund, page 22:]
  • imorgen gør jeg dundrende middag på Storli (tomorrow I am giving a tremendous dinner at Storli) [1874, Henrik Ibsen, De unges forbund, page 185:]
  • kan De ikke huske, at der blev holdt stor middag for Dem i klubben? (can you not remember that a grand dinner was held for you at the club?) [1892, Henrik Ibsen, Bygmester Solness, page 63:]
  • jeg hadde vinterfrakk med pelskrage og mansjetter da jeg gikk i første klasse, og inviterte mine venner til treretters middag med vin og bordtaler (I had a winter coat with a fur collar and cuffs in my first year and invited my friends to a three-course dinner with wine and speeches) [1996, Gunnar Staalesen, De døde har det godt:]
  • det [blir] naturlig [for ledere] å måtte gi en middag i ny og ne – i alle fall mottakelser (it is natural for leaders to have to give a dinner now and then—or at least receptions) [2003, Arne Olav Brundtland, Fortsatt gift med Gro:]

Nouns inflected like middag

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. Inherited from Old Norse miðdagr (“midday, noon”), from Proto-Germanic *midjadagaz (“noon”), from *midjaz (“middle”) + *dagaz (“day”), literally “middle day” or “middle of the day”.
2. The original sense was the middle of the day, especially noon. The meal sense developed because the day's main meal was traditionally eaten around this time. Although the meal gradually moved to later in the afternoon or evening, especially as working patterns changed, the old name remained.
3. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk middag, Danish middag and Swedish middag (“midday; dinner”), Faroese middagur and Icelandic miðdegi (“midday, noon”), as well as English midday, Dutch middag and German Mittag (“midday, noon”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'miðdagr', Old Norse Nouns 'miðdagr', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'middag', Danish Nouns 'middag', Swedish Nouns 'middag', Faroese Nouns 'middagur', Icelandic Nouns 'miðdegi', English Nouns 'midday', Dutch Nouns 'middag', German Nouns 'Mittag'.

Verbs referencing "middag"

English Nouns midday.

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