Noun: våg
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | våg |
| Sg. definite | vågen |
| Pl. indefinite | våge; våger |
| Pl. definite | vågene; vågerne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | vågs |
| Sg. definite | vågens |
| Pl. indefinite | våges; vågers |
| Pl. definite | vågenes; vågernes |
Sample Sentences
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Du er Kredsløbets Bytte, du Lille, / du er født til Vendettaens Aag, / og som Galliens Mor skal du stirre / hjerteræd ned i Krigshavets Vaag. (You are the prey of the loop, you little one, you are born to the yoke of the vendetta, and as the mother of Gaul, you shall stare, frightened in your heart, into the wave of the sea of war.) [1921, Frederik Poulsen, Folkesind i Nord og Sy, d, p. 109:]
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Der sad i Vaagen Præstemanden Hans Egede og læste i en gammel Bog, hvordan kristen Tro fordum havde bygget på Grønland. (In the inlet, the priest Hans Egede was reading in an old book how Christian faith had once existed in Greenland.) [1812, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Kort Begreb af Verdens Krønike i Sammenhæng, page 313:]
Nouns inflected like våg
døbefont,
sydvest,
gamling,
pivskid,
nævning,
klovn,
alk,
fil,
våg,
skælm,
muldvarp,
agerjord,
mørbrad,
mistelten,
høvding,
læst,
gift,
jord,
stør,
skål, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Danish wagh (“heavy sea”), from Old Norse vágr (“sea‚ bay”), from Proto-Germanic *wēgaz (“wave”), cognate with Norwegian våg (“inlet”), Swedish våg (“wave”), English waw (obsolete), Dutch waag f, Old Norse vágr (“sea; bay”). Doublet of vove. See: Old Norse Nouns '
vágr', Swedish Nouns '
våg', English Nouns '
waw', Dutch Nouns '
waag', Old Norse Nouns '
vágr'.
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