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tilfelli

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Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse tilfelli see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (“chance, coincidence”).

Noun

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tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli)

  1. case, instance, circumstance

Declension

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Declension of tilfelli (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tilfelli tilfellið tilfelli tilfellin
accusative tilfelli tilfellið tilfelli tilfellin
dative tilfelli tilfellinu tilfellum tilfellunum
genitive tilfellis tilfellisins tilfella tilfellanna

References

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intermediary zuoval.[1][2][3]

Noun

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tilfelli n

  1. case, occurrence, circumstance
  2. accident
  3. (grammar) a case

Declension

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This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

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  1. ^ “Zufall” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
  2. ^ Richard Cleasby; Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874), “tilfelli”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 631
  3. ^ Blöndal, Sigfús; Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal; Jón Ófeigsson; Holger Wiehe (1924), “tilfelli”, in Íslensk-Dönsk Orðabók / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog (in Danish), Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg
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