tilfælde

Danish

Etymology

From later Old Norse tilfelli, from Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intermediary zuoval.[1][2][3] Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Icelandic tilfelli. Compare German Zufall (“chance, coincidence”).

Noun

tilfælde n (singular definite tilfældet, plural indefinite tilfælde)

  1. case, occurrence
  2. accident, coincidence

Declension

Declension of tilfælde
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tilfælde tilfældet tilfælde tilfældene
genitive tilfældes tilfældets tilfældes tilfældenes
  • tilfald (archaic or dialectal)

References

  1. ^ “Zufall” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
  2. ^ Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tilfelli”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 631
  3. ^ Blöndal, Sigfús, Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal, Jón Ófeigsson, Holger Wiehe (1924) “tilfelli”, in Íslensk-Dönsk Orðabók / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog‎[1] (in Danish), Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg

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