Noun: par
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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eit par sko (a pair of shoes)
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for eit par dagar sidan (a few days ago)
Nouns inflected like par
antiklimaks,
symbol,
system,
sysken,
kroppsvev,
snøras,
sexliv,
sekret,
senter,
samråd,
samvit,
samvær,
samløp,
mikrosekund,
sesongkort,
sovjet,
solbær,
sjøfly,
sjøliv,
sirkus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse par, from Middle Low German par, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of pār. Akin to English pair. See: Old Norse Nouns '
par', Latin Nouns '
paria', English Nouns '
pair'.
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