Gnu – German noun declension

Noun: Gnu
Gender: Neuter
Hyphenation:

Nominative

Genitive

Dative

Accusative

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like Gnu

Großraumbüro, Mocktail, Goldmedaillon, Blümchenkaffee, Séparée, Energietransfer, Zwetschgendatschi, Eineurojob, Emailmedaillon, Bräunungsspray, Baschlik, Bodyguard, Boonekamp, Baseball, Katzencafé, Akkordeon, Leitungscode, Stresstest, Passepartout, Wunderwuzi, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

First used by Georg Forster in 1778, transcribing English gnoo, which he himself had introduced, a year earlier, in his English work A voyage round the world. Further from Khoekhoe !nu:, possibly via South African Dutch. While Dutch gnoe is only attested later on (common Afrikaans being wildebees), it may nevertheless have existed because it would have been difficult for Forster to borrow the word directly from Khoekhoe. The earliest-ever European attestation seems to be in a French text of 1775 (in the form nou). See: English Nouns 'gnu'.

Verbs referencing "Gnu"

Danish Nouns gnu, Finnish Nouns gnu, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns gnu, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns gnu, Galician Nouns ñu, Spanish Nouns ñu.

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