li – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: li
Gender: Masculine, Feminine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	li
Pl.	lier

Definite

Sg.	lia; lien
Pl.	liene

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like li

nedbryting, nedbrytning, etablering, frokostblanding, sender, avbildning, etterretning, sjølei, betongsag, havstrømning, koldnålsradering, skarphet, villmark, bedring, atomvekt, klimaendring, beiting, kulltegning, bergart, berging, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Inherited from Danish li (also lid), which partially continues Old Danish liidh, but was reinforced and phonetically influenced by dialectal Norwegian li. Both forms are from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. See: Danish Nouns 'li', Danish Nouns 'li', Old Norse Nouns 'hlíð'.

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