ark – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: ark
Gender: Masculine, Neuter Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	ark
Pl.	arker; ark

Definite

Sg.	arken; arket
Pl.	arkene; arka

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like ark

bordell, utedass, beredskap, kjøkkenredskap, kjennskap, nomenklatur, spindelvev, artefakt, slektskap, astrakan, hengelås, chateau, trygdemisbruk, ondskap, glidelås, snøkrystall, do, fe, mo, eksem, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Norse ǫrk (“chest”), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ (*arku), borrowed during pre-Christian time from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“enclose, box in”), from Proto-Italic *arkeō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard”). See: Latin Nouns 'arca'.

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