Noun: gren
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | gren |
| Sg. definite | grenen |
| Pl. indefinite | grene |
| Pl. definite | grenene |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | grens |
| Sg. definite | grenens |
| Pl. indefinite | grenes |
| Pl. definite | grenenes |
Sample Sentences
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I vore dage anser mange astronomi som en gren af fysik, men historisk har de udviklet sig fuldstændig uafhængigt af hinanden. (In our days, many people see astronomy as a branch of physics, but historically, they've developed completely independently of each other.)
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gren af en slægt, en virksomhed (branch of a family, a company)
Nouns inflected like gren
tøsedreng,
følgesvend,
skjald,
islænding,
hvirvelstorm,
dyreelsker,
paletkniv,
bededag,
belizer,
bestand,
hobbykniv,
foldekniv,
navlestreng,
abebestand,
rullestol,
pn-overgang,
rødstjert,
trækkerdreng,
baggård,
fedterøv, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Danish gren, from Old Norse grein (“branch”), from Proto-Germanic *grainō. Maybe related to the verb *grīnaną, if the original meaning was "to yawn". The noun has replaced the older Germanic word for "branch", *astaz. See: Old Norse Nouns '
grein'.
Verbs referencing "gren"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
gren, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
abildgren.
Translations