Noun: varehus
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | varehuset |
| Pl. | varehusa; varehusene |
Sample Sentences
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Varene ble kjørt til et varehus ved havna. (The goods were taken to a warehouse by the harbour.)
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Hun arbeidet i et stort varehus i sentrum. (She worked in a large department store in the city centre.)
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varehuset Steen & Strøm (the Steen & Strøm department store) [1999, Dag Solstad, T. Singer:]
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Lafayette, berliner-filialen av det parisiske varehus (Lafayette, the Berlin branch of the Parisian department store) [2002, Dag Solstad, 16-07-41:]
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da de første store varehusene kom til Paris i 1850-årene … kunne man vandre fritt rundt (when the first large department stores came to Paris in the 1850s … one could walk around freely) [2009, Peter Butenschøn, Byen, page 115:]
Nouns inflected like varehus
kretsløp,
kroppsvev,
sexliv,
samråd,
samvær,
samløp,
sesongkort,
cappella-kor,
solbær,
sjøfly,
sjøliv,
betongrør,
passasjertog,
passasjerfly,
skritt,
skjerf,
skjegg,
skjold,
fenakjøtt,
selvmord, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From vare (“goods, merchandise”) + hus (“house, building”), literally “goods house”.
2. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk varehus (“warehouse; department store”), Danish varehus, Swedish varuhus and German Warenhaus (“department store”), and English warehouse. The English word corresponds especially to the storage-building sense, while the German and Swedish words correspond especially to the retail sense. See: Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns '
varehus', Danish Nouns '
varehus', Swedish Nouns '
varuhus', German Nouns '
Warenhaus', English Nouns '
warehouse'.
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