and – Danish noun declension

Noun: and
Gender: Common Hyphenation:

Nominative

Sg. indefinite	and
Sg. definite	anden
Pl. indefinite	ænder
Pl. definite	ænderne

Genitive

Sg. indefinite	ands
Sg. definite	andens
Pl. indefinite	ænders
Pl. definite	ændernes

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like and

and,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Old Norse ǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *anadz, cognate with German Ente, Dutch eend. The Germanic noun derives from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énh₂ts (“duck”), which is also the source of Latin anas, Ancient Greek νῆττα (nêtta), Lithuanian ántis, Sanskrit आति (ātí).
2. The sense of "false story" is a semantic loan from French canard. See: Old Norse Nouns 'ǫnd', Old Norse Nouns 'ǫnd', German Nouns 'Ente', Dutch Nouns 'eend', Latin Nouns 'anas', Ancient Greek Nouns 'νῆττα'.