år

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ar" and Appendix:Variations of "aar"

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish aar, from Old Norse ár, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r-. Compare Norwegian and Swedish år, English year.

Noun

år n (singular definite året, plural indefinite år)

  1. year

Inflection
Declension of år
neuter
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative år året år årene
genitive års årets års årenes

Derived terms

References

German Low German

Conjunction

år

  1. (Westphalian) Alternative form of àder

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ár (“year; plenty, abundance”), from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /oːɾ/

Noun

år n (definite singular året, indefinite plural år, definite plural åra or årene)

  1. a year
Derived terms

Noun

år f or m (definite singular åra or åren, indefinite plural årer, definite plural årene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by åre

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /oːr/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ár, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r-. Akin to English year.

Alternative forms
  • aar (obsolete typography)

Noun

år n (definite singular året, indefinite plural år, definite plural åra)

  1. a year
Inflection
Historical inflection of år
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Aasen1 Aar Aaret Aar Aari
1901 aaret (aare)
1917 år året år åra, åri
1938 åra [åri]
2012 (current) år året år år

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ár.

Alternative forms

Noun

år f (definite singular åra, indefinite plural årar or årer, definite plural årane or årene)

  1. an oar
Inflection
Historical inflection of år
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Aasen1 Aar Aari Aarar Aararne
1901 aararne (aarane)
1917 år åra, åri årar, årer årane, årene
19382 åra [åri]
2012 (current) år åra årar, årer årane, årene

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2åre was taken in as an alternative form.

Etymology 3

From Old Norse æðr, from Proto-Germanic *ēþrǭ.

Alternative forms

Noun

år f (definite singular åra, indefinite plural årar or årer, definite plural årane or årene)

  1. (anatomy, botany or geology) a vein
    • 1915, Kristofer Janson, Norske eventyr som taletekster, page 75:
      han ransakar aadrarna i bladet
      he examines the veins of the leaf
Inflection
Historical inflection of år
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Aasen1 Aadr Aadri Aadrar Aadrarna
1901 aadrarne (aadrane)
1917 år åra, åri årar, årer årane, årene
19382 åra [åri]
2012 (current) år åra årar, årer årane, årene

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century. 2åre was taken in as an alternative form.

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish ār, from Old Norse ár, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈoːr/
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ]år

Noun

år n

  1. a year

Declension
Declension of år 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative år året år åren
Genitive års årets års årens

Derived terms

See also

References

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