Noun: avgrunn
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Definite
| Sg. | avgrunnen |
| Pl. | avgrunnane |
Sample Sentences
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Fjellklatraren glei og fall ned i avgrunnen. (The mountaineer slipped and fell into the chasm.)
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Dei fordømte skal fortapast i avgrunnens pine. (The damned shall perish in the suffering of the abyss.)
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To emerge from it and not to perish in it is why the abyss exists. (literally: "the abyss exists to emerge from, and not to perish in") [Avgrunnen er til å stige opp or, og ikkje til å forkomast i. (Tarjei Vesaas)]
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Det var en avgrunn mellom synspunkta deira. (There was a huge gap between their points of view.)
Nouns inflected like avgrunn
bernhardin,
billettautomat,
røykdukkar,
krøpling,
symbal,
synops,
synsar,
syklon,
syklus,
swazilendar,
kroppsdel,
snøbre,
serbar,
server,
sesjon,
sesong,
septim,
setjar,
settar,
sefard, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compound word, av (“off”) + grunn (“ground”), loan-translation from Middle Low German (compare German German Abgrund). See: German Nouns '
Abgrund'.
Verbs referencing "avgrunn"
Danish Nouns
afgrund.
Translations