Noun: väte
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | väte |
| Sg. Def. | vätet |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | vätes |
| Sg. Def. | vätets |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like väte
krypskytte,
ursinne,
shampo,
torskfiske,
skapande,
oljeberoende,
ministerstyre,
läroämbete,
forellfiske,
framåtskridande,
fäderne,
skräckinjagande,
petgöra,
grovgöra,
drivgarnsfiske,
lättsinne,
kräftfiske,
mervärde,
insjöfiske,
poströstande, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From våt (“wet”), compare väta (“to wet”), after French hydrogène and German Wasserstoff. Coined by Swedish scientists Pehr von Afzelius and Anders Gustaf Ekeberg in 1795. Analogue with syre (“oxygen”) and kväve (“nitrogen”). See: French Nouns '
hydrogène', German Nouns '
Wasserstoff'.
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