Noun: farve
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | farve |
| Sg. definite | farven |
| Pl. indefinite | farver |
| Pl. definite | farverne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | farves |
| Sg. definite | farvens |
| Pl. indefinite | farvers |
| Pl. definite | farvernes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like farve
toiletbørste,
krokodille,
svensknøgle,
nissehue,
overtagelse,
snurre,
snitte,
snerle,
snerre,
snerpe,
satire,
meddelelse,
sjuske,
sminke,
smerte,
slippe,
slange,
slette,
skøjte,
sonate, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From earlier farge, from Middle Low German varwe, verwe, from *Old Saxon farwi, *farawi (“colour”), from Proto-Germanic *farwō, from Proto-Indo-European *per-, *perḱ- (“motley, coloured”). Cognate with Old High German farawa (“color”) (German Farbe), Old High German faro (“colored”), Latin pulcher (“beautiful, sheen”), Ancient Greek περκνός (perknós, “multicolored”), Old Irish earc (“spotted”). See: German Nouns '
Farbe', Latin Nouns '
pulcher'.
Verbs referencing "farve"
Swedish Nouns
färg, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
farge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
farge.
Translations
dye, to colour with dye