Mette
See also: mette
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Contraction of Merete, from Margrethe (“Margaret”).
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mette
- a female given name
Usage notes edit
- Popular in Denmark from the 1960s to the 1980s.
References edit
- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 52 922 females with the given name Mette have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Mette
- a female given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Mette (Kotus type 8*C/nalle, tt-t gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mette | Metet | ||
genitive | Meten | Mettejen | ||
partitive | Metteä | Mettejä | ||
illative | Metteen | Metteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mette | Metet | ||
accusative | nom. | Mette | Metet | |
gen. | Meten | |||
genitive | Meten | Mettejen Metteinrare | ||
partitive | Metteä | Mettejä | ||
inessive | Metessä | Meteissä | ||
elative | Metestä | Meteistä | ||
illative | Metteen | Metteihin | ||
adessive | Metellä | Meteillä | ||
ablative | Meteltä | Meteiltä | ||
allative | Metelle | Meteille | ||
essive | Mettenä | Metteinä | ||
translative | Meteksi | Meteiksi | ||
abessive | Metettä | Meteittä | ||
instructive | — | Metein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Mette is the 281st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,846 female individuals (and as a middle name to 356 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German mettī, from Old High German mattina, a borrowing of Late Latin mattina from Classical Latin (laudēs) mātūtīnae (“morning (praise)”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Mette f (genitive Mette, plural Metten)
Declension edit
Declension of Mette [feminine]
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “Mette” in Duden online
- “Mette” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Mette” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Norwegian edit
Proper noun edit
Mette
- a female given name of Danish origin