Noun: is
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
countable and uncountable
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | is |
| Sg. definite | isen |
| Pl. indefinite | is |
| Pl. definite | isene |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | is' |
| Sg. definite | isens |
| Pl. indefinite | is' |
| Pl. definite | isenes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like is
væggelus,
minimajs,
is,
babymajs,
blues,
clips,
krebs,
lus,
mus,
spidsmus,
dværgmus,
husmus,
flagermus,
tagetes,
fredløs,
vaniljeis,
kapers,
laks,
majs,
kiks, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Danish is, iis, from Old Norse íss, from Proto-Germanic *īsą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-. See: Old Norse Nouns '
íss'.
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