Marshallöarna

Swedish

Etymology

Marshall +‎ ö (“island”) +‎ -arna (plural definite suffix), "the Marshall islands"

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Marshallöarna n (genitive Marshallöarnas)

1. Marshall Islands (a country consisting of two archipelagos in Micronesia, in Oceania)

Usage notes

Grammatically in the plural definite.

Related terms

• marshalles
• marshallesisk
• marshallesiska

See also

countries in Oceania: Oceaniens länder (appendix)edit

• Australien
• Cooköarna
• Fiji
• Kiribati
• Marshallöarna
• Mikronesien
• Nauru
• Nya Zeeland
• Palau
• Papua Nya Guinea
• Salomonöarna
• Samoa
• Tonga
• Tuvalu
• Vanuatu

References

• “Marshallöarna”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Utrikes namnbok (12th ed., 2024)