mil – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of mil

Noun: mil
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.mil
Pl.mil

Definite

Sg.mila; milen
Pl.milene

Sample Sentences

  • gammel norsk mil (old Norwegian mile; 11.3 kilometres)
  • [Gjendineggen] er halve milen lang ([Gjendineggen] is half a mile long) [1874, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, page 8:]
  • Det er fire mil dit. (It is forty kilometres there.)
  • Bilen bruker 0,7 liter bensin på mila. (The car uses 0.7 litres of petrol per Scandinavian mile.)
  • [de] kunde ønske os hundrede mile fra hverandre ([they] could wish us a hundred miles from each other) [(Can we date this quote?), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons fortællinger, page 285:]
  • min sjæl er tung af megen sorg, min fod af mange mile (my soul is heavy with much sorrow, my foot with many miles) [1930, Vilhelm Krag, Digte, page 61:]
  • [blomster] som ellers ikke fandtes i miles omkreds ([flowers] that were otherwise not found for miles around) [(Can we date this quote?), Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons fortællinger, page 420:]
  • det kunne være mila mellom hvert sted det bodde folk (there could be a Scandinavian mile between each place where people lived) [1968, Mikkjel Fønhus, Villgås flyr mot nord, page 20:]
  • rundt 0,57 liter på mila kan du regne med på blandet kjøring og kanskje et stykke under 0,5 liter på mila på langkjøring (you can expect around 0.57 litres per Scandinavian mile in mixed driving and perhaps somewhat under 0.5 litres per Scandinavian mile on long-distance driving) [2005, Motor, number 5:]
  • engelsk mil (English mile, statute mile; 1,609.33 metres)
  • geografisk mil (geographical mile; 7,420.438 metres, one fifteenth of a degree of longitude)
  • jeg spurgte manden, hvor langt det vel kunde være til Holmestrand, regnet i gode, gamle geografiske mile (I asked the man how far it might be to Holmestrand, reckoned in good old geographical miles) [1890, Knut Hamsun, Sult, page 232:]
  • Skipet gjorde ti mils fart. (The ship made ten nautical miles' speed.)
  • [skipet] gjør 18 1/2 mil ([the ship] makes 18 1/2 nautical miles) [1931, Norges Handels- og Sjøfartstidende, number 85, page 3, column 4:]

Nouns inflected like mil

bladlus, flaggermus, landmil, lus, mil, hodelus, luremus,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Old Norse míla (“mile”), from Latin milia passuum (“thousand paces”), from milia (“thousands”), plural of mille (“thousand”), and passuum, genitive plural of passus (“pace, step”). Doublet of mile (“English mile, statute mile”) and mille (“thousand”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk mil, Danish mil, Swedish mil, Icelandic míla, Faroese míla and English mile. See: Old Norse Nouns 'míla', Old Norse Nouns 'míla', Latin Nouns 'milia passuum', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'mil', Danish Nouns 'mil', Swedish Nouns 'mil', Icelandic Nouns 'míla', Faroese Nouns 'míla', English Nouns 'mile'.

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