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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
jeg (plural jegs)
- (machinery) Alternative form of jig
Danish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse ek (Old East Norse jek), from Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
jeg (accusative mig, possessive min)
- (personal) I
Usage notes[edit]
Frequently omitted in informal, written contexts, such as text messaging, memoranda and profiles.
See also[edit]
Danish personal pronouns
Number | Person | Inflection | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Reflexive | Reflexive possessive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | common | jeg | mig | min | ||
neuter | mit | ||||||
plural | mine | ||||||
Second | common | du | dig | din | |||
neuter | dit | ||||||
plural | dine | ||||||
formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | masculine | han | ham | hans | sig | sin | |
feminine | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
common | den | den | dens | ||||
neuter | det | det | dets | sit | |||
plural | sine | ||||||
Plural | First | — | vi | os | vores | ||
common | vor | ||||||
neuter | vort | ||||||
plural | vore | ||||||
Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | – | de | dem | deres | sig |
Noun[edit]
jeg n (singular definite jeget, plural indefinite jeger)
- self (an individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)
- (psychology) I, ego
- (literature) first-person narrator
Inflection[edit]
Declension of jeg
Synonyms[edit]
- (literature): jegfortæller
Faroese[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
jeg
Synonyms[edit]
- eg (standard Faroese)
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse ek (Old East Norse jek). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
jeg
- I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
See also[edit]
Personal pronouns in Bokmål
Nominative | Objective case | Genitive/Possessive pronoun | |
---|---|---|---|
Singular | |||
First person | jeg | meg | min, mi, mitt, mine |
Second person | du | deg | din, di, ditt, dine |
Third person m | han | han/ham | hans |
Third person f | hun | henne | hennes |
Third person n | det | det | dets |
Third person, nonhuman m/f | den | den | dens |
Plural | |||
First person | vi | oss | vår m |
Second person | dere | dere | deres |
Third person | de | dem | deres |
References[edit]
- “jeg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Of Slavic origin, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *žegъ.
Noun[edit]
jeg n (plural jeguri)
Declension[edit]
declension of jeg
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
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