Noun: helvete
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
Definite
Sample Sentences
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Somme trur dei fordømde kjem til helvete. (Some people believe that the damned are sent to hell.)
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Now I am probably the only priest in the lands of Norway who can say that he has been in Hell, and has escaped it safe and sound. [No er eg visst den einaste presten i Noregs land som kan seie han har vore i Helvete, og som har sloppe heil-skinna ut att. (Article in the Norwegian Nynorsk edition of Wikipedia)]
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Eg dreg aldri til den staden igjen, han var eit helvete. (I'm never going to that place again, it was like hell.)
Nouns inflected like helvete
sjuttu,
smyrju,
solrev,
skrika,
skjemt,
bakbord,
groschen,
fyrverk,
aftanròde,
kakuskive,
samkvæme,
papyrus,
deja vu,
enten-eller,
spanderbukser,
flyttefot,
aprilnarr,
raudruss,
falsk venn,
småsystrer, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse helvíti ("Hell"), compound word of hel, Hel ("the goddess of the realm of the dead") (itself from Proto-Germanic *haljō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide, conceal”)) and víti ("punishment"). Compare Swedish helvete, Danish helvede, Icelandic helvíti, Old High German hellawîzi, Old Saxon helliwīti and Old English hellewīte. See: Old Norse Nouns '
helvíti', Swedish Nouns '
helvete', Danish Nouns '
helvede', Icelandic Nouns '
helvíti', Old English Nouns '
hellewīte'.
Verbs referencing "helvete"
Swedish Nouns
helvete.
Translations