Noun: lyst
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | lyst |
| Sg. definite | lysten |
| Pl. indefinite | lyster |
| Pl. definite | lysterne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | lysts |
| Sg. definite | lystens |
| Pl. indefinite | lysters |
| Pl. definite | lysternes |
Sample Sentences
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Jeg havde ingen lyst til mad, men nødte mig selv til at spise. (I had no desire for food, but compelled myself to eat.)
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De blev grebet af lyst. (They were seized by lust.)
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”Til Lyst for mig og Verden gid jeg kunde hensynge saa mit Liv:” C.Frimann. ("Would that I could, for the delight of myself and the world, thus spend my life in song:" C.Frimann.) [1833, Christian Molbech, Dansk Ordbog (etc.), page 436:]
Nouns inflected like lyst
deaktivering,
etablering,
sfinks,
fortovscafé,
desinficering,
sektor,
sekant,
kreation,
sadist,
emulsion,
affirmation,
kreditor,
smiley,
solgud,
soldat,
indvending,
fysioterapi,
shogun,
sheikh,
shaman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Danish lyst, lust, from Middle Low German lust, from Old Saxon lust, from Proto-West Germanic *lustu. Cognate with English lust and German Lust. A different stem in Old Norse losti. See: English Nouns '
lust', German Nouns '
Lust', Old Norse Nouns '
losti'.
Verbs referencing "lyst"
English Nouns
lust.
Translations