nåe – Norwegian Bokmål noun declension

Noun: nåe
Gender: Masculine Hyphenation:

Indefinite

Sg.	nåe
Pl.	nåer

Definite

Sg.	nåen
Pl.	nåene

Sample Sentences

den bleke nåe (the pale corpse) [1924, Arnulf Øverland, Brød og vin, page 49:]

Nouns inflected like nåe

overtakelse, modelljernbane, seanse, overtagelse, snegle, satire, sminkebørste, salvie, sjanse, smerte, slange, sonate, single, skygge, skotte, skjede, skalle, bekreftelse, fenaknoke, sommerferie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Old Norse nár (“corpse; a dead person”), from Proto-Germanic *nawiz (“corpse”), from Proto-Indo-European *neh₂wis (“corpse”), from *neh₂w- (“death; corpse”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'nár'.