spalte – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of spalte

Noun: spalte
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.spalte
Pl.spalter

Definite

Sg.spalta; spalten
Pl.spaltene

Sample Sentences

  • Lyset sivet inn gjennom en spalte i taket. (The light seeped in through a crack in the ceiling.)
  • (anatomy, zoology) a slit, cleft or narrow opening, especially one leading into a cavity in a human or animal body
  • (botany) a similar opening in a plant
  • jeg [fant endelig] frem til den varme spalten i mørket omkring meg (I [finally found] my way to the warm slit in the darkness around me.) [1959, Axel Jensen, Line, page 90:]
  • enden kom mere frem [slik] at jeg lettere kunne komme til med fingrene inne i spalten (The end came further out [so] that I could more easily reach it with my fingers inside the opening.) [1966, Jens Bjørneboe, Uten en tråd, page 17:]
  • Teksten stod i to spalter. (The text was printed in two columns.)
  • stadsavisens spalter, hvor den tyske verskunst halter (the town newspaper's columns, where German verse limps.) [1875, Henrik Ibsen, Digte, page 146:]
  • en overskrift som går over fem spalter (a headline spanning five columns.) [1979 March 13, Tidens Krav, page 11:]
  • Hun skriver en fast spalte i avisen. (She writes a regular column in the newspaper.)
  • figurere i spaltene (to be mentioned or written about in the press)
  • jeg hadde en egen spalte: «Fra mitt kjøkkenvindu», med en fast vignett (I had my own column: “From my kitchen window”, with a fixed vignette.) [2006, Sissel Lange-Nielsen, Et forfatterliv, page 129:]

Nouns inflected like spalte

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

1. Borrowed from German Spalte (“fissure, cleft; column”), from Middle High German spalde, a variant of spalt (“split, cleft”), from Old High German spalt (“split, cleft”). Also analyzable as a deverbal noun from spalte (“to split, cleave”).
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk spalte, Danish spalte and Swedish spalt (“fissure, cleft; column”). See: German Nouns 'Spalte', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'spalte', Danish Nouns 'spalte', Swedish Nouns 'spalt'.

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