måte – Norwegian Nynorsk noun declension

Noun: måte
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	måte
Pl.	måtar

Definite

Sg.	måten
Pl.	måtane

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like måte

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 Late Old Norse máti, from Middle Low German māte, from Proto-Germanic *mētō. Cognate with Dutch maat, German Maß, Mass (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), German Low German Maat, Moot. See: Old Norse Nouns 'máti', Dutch Nouns 'maat', German Nouns 'Maß'.

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