aldri
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aldri
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse aldri, aldrigi.
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aldri
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Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse aldri, aldrigi.
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aldri
- never (at no time)
- 2003, Kaizers Orchestra, Evig pint:
- Sett deg inn i mine kår
så kanskje du forstår
at de aldri vil sleppa meg inn
inn i himmelen din- Put yourself in my position
so maybe you'll understand
that they'll never let me in
into your heaven
- Put yourself in my position
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- “aldri” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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- aldrigi (adverb)
Etymology edit
Clipping of aldrigi (“not in a lifetime”), from the dative singular of aldr (“age, lifetime”). Literally 'in a lifetime'.
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aldri
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aldri
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- “aldri”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press