forkortelse
Danish
Etymology
Verbal noun to forkorte (“shorten, abridge, abbreviate”) + -else, from Middle Low German vorkorten, from kort (“short”), from Latin curtus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɔrˈkɔrtəlsə/, [fʌˈkʰɒːd̥l̩sə]
Noun
forkortelse c (singular definite forkortelsen, plural indefinite forkortelser)
- abbreviation (shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase)
- shortening
- abridgment
- cut
- contraction
- reduction
Inflection
Declension of forkortelse
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | forkortelse | forkortelsen | forkortelser | forkortelserne |
| genitive | forkortelses | forkortelsens | forkortelsers | forkortelsernes |
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
forkortelse m (definite singular forkortelsen, indefinite plural forkortelser, definite plural forkortelsene)
- an abbreviation (shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase)
- Synonym: abbreviering
Synonyms
References
- “forkortelse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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