Noun: dåd
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | dåd |
| Sg. definite | dåden |
| Pl. indefinite | dåder |
| Pl. definite | dåderne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | dåds |
| Sg. definite | dådens |
| Pl. indefinite | dåders |
| Pl. definite | dådernes |
Sample Sentences
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Saxes Skildring af Starkads Ungdom sætter Kampen i Irland blandt hans første Dåder, ... (Saxe's depiction of Starkad's youth puts the battle in Ireland among his first feats, ...) [1907, Gudmund Schütte, Oldsagn om Godtjod: bidrag til etnisk Kildeforsknings metode med særligt henblik på folk-stamsagn:]
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... officererne holder fortræffelige taler og fortæller om deres store dåder, ... (... the officers hold exquisite speeches and speak of their great deeds, ...) [2014, Walter Benjamin, translated by Sofie Kluge, Det tyske sørgespils oprindelse, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 156:]
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... det fornuftige synspunkt, at man i tide kan hædre en mand efter hans død, hvis hans dåder berettiger dertil. (... the reasonable point of view that one can, in time, honoour a man after his death, if his deeds entitle him to that.) [1970, Bent Jørgensen, Dansk gadenavneskik:]
Nouns inflected like dåd
deaktivering,
etablering,
sfinks,
fortovscafé,
desinficering,
sektor,
sekant,
kreation,
sadist,
emulsion,
affirmation,
kreditor,
smiley,
solgud,
soldat,
indvending,
fysioterapi,
shogun,
sheikh,
shaman, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Danish dāth, from Old Norse dáð, from Proto-Germanic *dēdiz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tis, from *dʰeh₁- (“to place, set, put”). Cognate with Old English dǣd (whence English deed). See: Old Norse Nouns '
dáð', English Nouns '
deed'.
Verbs referencing "dåd"
English Nouns
deed, German Nouns
Tat.
Translations