gran – Norwegian Nynorsk noun declension

Noun: gran
Gender: Feminine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	gran
Pl.	graner

Definite

Sg.	grana
Pl.	granene

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like gran

salsbu, bølgjelengd, sjølei, betongsag, brennvidd, skrift, villmark, bedrift, atomvekt, hotell-lov, grannsemd, elvebredd, rettssak, fastetid, mellomtid, krossmess, leilegheit, åtgjerd, papirvekt, bandsag, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Norse grǫn (“spruce or pine tree”), whence also gron (“muzzle; animal lips”). From Proto-Germanic *granō (“awn, bristles”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰroH-néh₂-. Cognate with Faroese gron, Icelandic grön, and Swedish and Danish gran. See: Old Norse Nouns 'grǫn', Icelandic Nouns 'grön'.

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