kvinde
Danish
Alternative forms
- quinde (obsolete)
Etymology
From Old Norse kvenna, the genitive plural indefinite of kona (“woman, wife”), from Proto-Germanic *kwenǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn (“woman”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʰvenə/, /ˈkʰvɪnə/
Inflection
Declension of kvinde
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | kvinde | kvinden | kvinder | kvinderne |
genitive | kvindes | kvindens | kvinders | kvindernes |
Further reading
kvinde on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
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