Noun: pest
Gender: Masculine, Feminine
Hyphenation:
Indefinite
| Sg. | pest |
| Pl. | pestar; pester |
Definite
| Sg. | pesten; pesta |
| Pl. | pestane; pestene |
Sample Sentences
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sky (noko/nokon) som pesten (avoid (something/someone) like the plague)
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velje mellom pest og kolera (choose the lesser of two evils)
Nouns inflected like pest
bergart,
beskjed,
dampmaskin,
vaskemaskin,
ballast,
gangart,
krigsmaskin,
gråtrast,
ferjekai,
kunstart,
dyreart,
doktorgrad,
underart,
planteart,
skrivemaskin,
gatekunst,
svømmehall,
gravemaskin,
oppvaskmaskin,
dæ, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin pestis. See: Latin Nouns '
pestis'.
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