Mette
See also: mette
Danish
editEtymology
editContraction of Merete, from Margrethe (“Margaret”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editMette
- 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
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editMette
- a female given name
Declension
editInflection 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 Mettein rare | |
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
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German mettī, from Old High German mattina, a borrowing of Late Latin mattina from Classical Latin (laudēs) mātūtīnae (“morning (praise)”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editMette f (genitive Mette, plural Metten)
Declension
editDeclension of Mette [feminine]
Derived terms
editFurther 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
editProper noun
editMette
- a female given name of Danish origin
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