mengde

mengde

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of mengen

• gemend

Derived from the determiner mang en (also spelt mangen in Riksmål), a more formal and poetic way of expressing "many".

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mengde m (definite singular mengden, indefinite plural mengder, definite plural mengdene)

1. great number, lots of, numerous (this sense applies to countable nouns)

   det var en mengde med rare gjenstander i rommet = there were a great number of strange objects in the room

   hun kjøpte mengder med blomster = she bought lots of/numerous/a great number of flowers

2. amount, quantity (this sense applies to uncountable nouns)

   han åt enorme mengder mat = he ate enormous amounts of food

   det falt snø i store mengder på julaften = a huge amount of snow fell on Christmas Eve (literally: "it fell snow in huge amounts on Christmas Eve")

3. crowd, multitude

   han banet seg vei gjennom mengden = he made his way through the crowd

   en stor mengde møtte opp for å demonstrere mot det nye lovforslaget = a huge crowd turned up to protest the new bill (here: proposal for legislation)

   å skille seg ut fra mengden = to stand out from the crowd

This noun is rarely, if ever, used in the definite plural (mengdene).

• berg, bråte, bunke, drøss, dynge, fylde, haug, hav, hop, hopetall, lass, mangfoldighet, masse, mylder, myriade, overflod, overflødighet, rikdom, røys, smale, stim, utall, vrimmel, yrje

• antall, beløp, dosis, kvantitet, kvantum, mål, opplag, parti, porsjon, størrelse

• flokk, folk, folkemasse, forsamling, hærskare, publikum, skare

• folkemengde
• mengdevis (adverb) = in great numbers
• vannmengde

mengd (Nynorsk)

• “mengde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From the determiner mang ein

mengde f (definite singular mengda, indefinite plural mengder, definite plural mengdene)

1. alternative form of mengd

• folkemengde

• “mengde” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.