Noun: svoger
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | svoger |
| Sg. definite | svogeren |
| Pl. indefinite | svogre |
| Pl. definite | svogrene |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | svogers |
| Sg. definite | svogerens |
| Pl. indefinite | svogres |
| Pl. definite | svogrenes |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like svoger
udenrigsminister,
guldalder,
justitsminister,
langfinger,
læremester,
lillefinger,
skulder,
skræddermester,
ringfinger,
intelligensalder,
tidsalder,
bonusforælder,
levealder,
tommelfinger,
lillesøster,
snedkermester,
gennemsnitsalder,
alder,
feber,
borgmester, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle Low German swāger, from Proto-Germanic *swēgraz (“husband's brother”), cognate with German Schwager, Dutch zwager. Swedish svåger is also borrowed from Low German. The word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *swēḱurós (“husband's brother”), related to *swéḱuros (“father-in-law”) (German Schwäher, Latin socer) and *sweḱrúh₂ (“mother-in-law”) (German Schwieger, Latin socrus). See: German Nouns '
Schwager', Dutch Nouns '
zwager', Swedish Nouns '
svåger', German Nouns '
Schwäher', Latin Nouns '
socer', German Nouns '
Schwieger', Latin Nouns '
socrus'.
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