Noun: herre
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Mine damer og herrar! (Ladies and gentlemen!)
Nouns inflected like herre
snerke,
satire,
sminkebørste,
sjanse,
slange,
sonate,
single,
skugge,
skruve,
skotte,
skjede,
skalle,
hovudskalle,
skandale,
arbeidsstyrke,
renessanse,
gullbarre,
opiumsvalmue,
grisunge,
luftslange, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse herra, herri, from Old Saxon hērro, from Old High German hēriro, hērro, the comparative form of hēr (“noble, venerable”) (German hehr), by analogy with Latin senior (“elder”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
herra'.
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