figen – Danish noun declension

Danish noun forms of figen

Noun: figen
Gender: Common Hyphenation:

Nominative

Sg. indefinitefigen
Sg. definitefigenen
Pl. indefinitefigner; figener
Pl. definitefignerne; figenerne

Genitive

Sg. indefinitefigens
Sg. definitefigenens
Pl. indefinitefigners; figeners
Pl. definitefignernes; figenernes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like figen

figen,

Etymology

1. From Old Danish fikæ, Old Norse fíkja, ultimately from Latin fīcus (“fig fruit, fig tree”).
2. The German dialects have forms with -g-: Middle Low German vīge, German Feige, probably from Old French figue (whence also English fig. The Scandinavian form with -k- (cf. also Swedish fikon and Norwegian Bokmål fiken) may have come over Old English fīc. In Danish -k- becomes -g- regularly between vowels. See: Old Norse Nouns 'fíkja', Latin Nouns 'fīcus', German Nouns 'Feige', English Nouns 'fig', Swedish Nouns 'fikon', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'fiken', Old English Nouns 'fīc'.

Verbs referencing "figen"

Icelandic Nouns fíkja, Swedish Nouns fikon.

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