Noun: tunge
Gender: Common
Hyphenation:
Nominative
| Sg. indefinite | tunge |
| Sg. definite | tungen |
| Pl. indefinite | tunger |
| Pl. definite | tungerne |
Genitive
| Sg. indefinite | tunges |
| Sg. definite | tungens |
| Pl. indefinite | tungers |
| Pl. definite | tungernes |
Sample Sentences
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Men da ei Grunden blev tilstrækkelig / For Folkets Antal, drog de over til / Det sorte Bjerg, ja til det hvide Land, / Hvor, skjult bag ved en evig Muur af Iis, / Et andet Folk med anden Tunge taler. (But when the place was insufficient / For the numbers of the people, they went to / The black mountain, yes, to the white land, / Where, hidden behind an eternal wall of ice, / Another people in another tongue speaks.) [1856, Frederik E. Schiern, Historiske studier, page 86:]
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Deres høvding havde talt til ham i hans eget folks sprog og forklaret mange ting, som det var vanskeligt at udtrykke i en anden tunge. (Their chief had spoken to him in his own [not the chief's] people's language and explained many things that would have been difficult to express in another tongue.) [2014, Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, Rosinante & Co, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like tunge
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 Old Danish tungæ, Old Norse tunga, Proto-Germanic *tungǭ, cognate with English tongue, German Zunge, Gothic 𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉 (tuggō). The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue”), cf. Latin lingua, Sanskrit जिह्वा (jihvā́). See: Old Norse Nouns '
tunga', English Nouns '
tongue', German Nouns '
Zunge', Gothic Nouns '
𐍄𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍉', Latin Nouns '
lingua'.
Verbs referencing "tunge"
Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
tunge, German Nouns
Zunge.
Translations