hemmelig
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Swedish hemeliker, from Old Norse heimiligr, from Middle Low German heimelik, from Proto-West Germanic *haimalīk.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
hemmelig (neuter hemmeligt, plural and definite singular attributive hemmelige)
- secret (being or kept hidden)
Inflection[edit]
Inflection of hemmelig | |||
---|---|---|---|
Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | hemmelig | hemmeligere | hemmeligst2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | hemmeligt | hemmeligere | hemmeligst2 |
Plural | hemmelige | hemmeligere | hemmeligst2 |
Definite attributive1 | hemmelige | hemmeligere | hemmeligste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
References[edit]
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Danish hemmelig; compare with Old Norse heimiligr.
Adjective[edit]
hemmelig (neuter singular hemmelig, definite singular and plural hemmelige)
- secret (not meant to be known or seen by others)
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
- hemmeleg (Nynorsk)
References[edit]
- “hemmelig” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Categories:
- Danish terms derived from Old Swedish
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Middle Low German
- Danish terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Danish lemmas
- Danish adjectives
- Norwegian Bokmål terms inherited from Danish
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Danish
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål adjectives