tante – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Norwegian Bokmål noun forms of tante

Noun: tante
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.tante
Pl.tanter

Definite

Sg.tanta; tanten
Pl.tantene

Sample Sentences

  • Tante Anna kommer på besøk i morgen. (Aunt Anna is coming to visit tomorrow.)
  • Min fars søster er min tante. (My father's sister is my aunt.)

Nouns inflected like tante

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

From German Tante (“aunt”), from French tante (“aunt”), from Middle French tante, from Old French ante, antain (“aunt”), from Latin amita (“paternal aunt; father's sister”) (combined with Vulgar Latin *amitāna), from Proto-Indo-European *amma-, *ama- (“mother”). See: German Nouns 'Tante', French Nouns 'tante', Latin Nouns 'amita'.

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