sigt – Danish noun declension

Danish noun forms of sigt

Noun: sigt
Gender: Common, Neuter Hyphenation:

Nominative

Sg. indefinitesigt
Sg. definitesigten; sigtet

Genitive

Sg. indefinitesigts
Sg. definitesigtens; sigtets

Sample Sentences

  • 1998, Ib Ivar Dahl, Englevagt / https://books.google.dk/books?id=lJzkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155 (Even though the sight was good and the boat was approaching, I couldn't spot it.)
  • Vi var på kurs op igennem Lillebælt, og sigtet var dårligt på grund af stadige byger med tågeagtig finregn. (We were sailing through Lillebælt, and the sight was bad because of the constant showers with a foggy drizzle) [2002, Claus Ahlefeldt, Så er det Egeskov, Claus!:]
  • in phrases like på lang sigt or på sigt (“in the long term”), på kort sigt (“in the short term”)

Nouns inflected like sigt

dyrevelfærd, plastic, nikotin, djævelskab, carbondioxid, falsk, fluor, plast, tål, svovl, slang, xenon, alabast, hydrogennitrat, hedenskab, velfærd, kuldioxid, desmer, fosfor, cobalt, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Sicht, from Proto-Germanic *sihtiz, cognate with English sight. Derived from the verb *sehwaną (“to see”) (Danish se). See: German Nouns 'Sicht', English Nouns 'sight'.

Verbs referencing "sigt"

English Nouns sight.

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