Noun: time
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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Eg har ein time hjå tannlegen. (I have an appointment at the dentists.)
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No er timen komen, Daniel! (Now the time has come, Daniel!) [1945, Jakob Sande, Da Daniel drog:]
Nouns inflected like time
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 tími, from Proto-Germanic *tīmô (“time”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂imō, from *deh₂y- (“to share, divide”). Akin to English time. See: Old Norse Nouns '
tími', English Nouns '
time'.
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