mye
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek μῦς (mûs).
Noun[edit]
mye f (plural myes)
- Mya (taxonomic genre of mollusks)
Further reading[edit]
- “mye” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse mykit, a newer variant of mikit, itself the neuter form of the adjective mikill (“big, large, great”), from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål and Danish meget, Swedish mycket, Icelandic mikill and English much.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
mye (indeclinable, comparative mer, indefinite superlative mest, definite superlative meste)
- Existing in large quantities: lots of, a lot (of), many, a great deal (of), much (antonym to lite, "small", "little")
- Kom an, det er mye arbeid som må gjøres.
- Come on, there's a lot of work to do.
- Det finnes mye rart i byen.
- There are a lot of strange things in the city.
- Ble det for mye for deg? = was it too much for you?
- Kom an, det er mye arbeid som må gjøres.
- Used as a noun: much, a lot of (things), a great deal
- Mye kunne vært gjort annerledes i denne saken
- Much could have been done differently in this case.
- Mye kunne vært gjort annerledes i denne saken
- much, far, a great deal (in a comparative sense, functions as an adverb)
- Faren min er mye sterkere enn din.
- My dad is much stronger than yours.
- Det huset er mye større enn jeg hadde trodd.
- That house is much bigger than I had expected.
- Faren min er mye sterkere enn din.
- (as a verb-modifying adverb) much, a great deal, a good deal, a lot
- Jogger du mye i fritida?
- Do you jog much in your spare time?
- Han drikker mye.
- He drinks a lot.
- Jogger du mye i fritida?
Usage notes[edit]
- å være mye syk = to often be ill
- han er mye syk. = he is often ill.
Synonyms[edit]
- atskillig, bråtevis, en (god, hel, stor) del, en masse, fullt av, haugevis, mangt, massevis (av), mengdevis, plenty, rikelig (av, med)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
- få mye for pengene = make one's money go a long way; get one's money worth; get value for money (literally: "get much for the money")
- for mye og for lite skjemmer alt = enough is as good as a feast (literally: "too much and too little spoils everything")
- gjøre for mye ut av = make too much fuss (out) of (literally: "do/make too much out of")
- ikke mye å rope hurra for = not much to cheer about (literally: "not much to cry hooray for")
- man skal høre mye før ørene faller av = be hardly able/unable to believe one's ears (literally: "one is going to/shall hear a lot before the ears come off")
- mye vil ha mer = give him an inch and he'll take a mile (literally: "much wants more")
- så mye du vil = as much as you like; as much as you want
- uten så mye som å takke = without so much as a "thank you" (literally: "without so much as to thank")
References[edit]
- “mye” in The Ordnett Dictionary
- “mye” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- J.Fritnzer's dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
mye
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by mykje
Categories:
- French terms derived from Ancient Greek
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Norwegian Bokmål terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål adjectives
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk adjectives
- Norwegian Nynorsk pre-2012 forms