frøken

See also: fröken

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German.

Noun

frøken c (singular definite frøkenen or frøknen, plural indefinite frøkener or frøkner)

1. Miss, miss (an unmarried woman)

Inflection

Declension of frøken

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	frøken	frøkenen frøknen	frøkener frøkner	frøkenerne frøknerne
genitive	frøkens	frøkenens frøknens	frøkeners frøkners	frøkenernes frøknernes

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German vroiken, vrouken.

Noun

frøken m or f (definite singular frøkenen or frøkna, indefinite plural frøkner, definite plural frøknene)

1. Miss, miss (an unmarried woman)
2. a female teacher

Usage notes

Historically only used for unmarried daughters of the nobility, later also daughters of civil servants and the higher bourgeoisie (compare with jomfru which was generally used for daughters of the bourgeoisie in the early modern period), commonly adopted for all unmarried women in the 20th century. Rarely used in daily conversations since around 1970. Common English words like mister, miss etc. have become very archaic in ordinary Norwegian speech during the last decades of the 20th century.

References

• “frøken” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German vroiken, vrouken.

Noun

frøken f (definite singular frøkna, indefinite plural frøkner, definite plural frøknene)

1. Miss, miss (an unmarried woman)
2. a female teacher

Usage notes

As for Bokmål above.

References

• “frøken” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.