bamse
Danish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editbamse c (singular definite bamsen, plural indefinite bamser)
- teddy bear
- (informal) bear
- a burly man
Inflection
editDeclension of bamse
Synonyms
edit- (bear): bjørn
- (teddy bear): teddybjørn
- (burly man): bamsefar
Further reading
edit
bamse on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da- “bamse” in Den Danske Ordbog
Greenlandic
editEtymology
editNoun
editbamse
Norwegian Nynorsk
editEtymology
editNoun
editbamse m (definite singular bamsen, indefinite plural bamsar, definite plural bamsane)
- a teddy bear
- a bear
- Synonym: bjørn
- a big clumsy person
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “bamse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
editEtymology
editRelated to Norwegian Nynorsk bamse
Noun
editbamse c
- (colloquial, often endearing) a bear
- Synonym: nalle
- Barnen fick mata den snälla bamsen
- The children got to feed the kind bear
- (colloquial) something large, a biggun
- Synonym: bamsing
- Wow! Vilken bamse.
- Wow! That's a biggun.
Declension
edit| Declension of bamse | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | bamse | bamsen | bamsar | bamsarna |
| Genitive | bamses | bamsens | bamsars | bamsarnas |
See also
edit- baddare
- bjässe
- schabrak
- teddybjörn (“teddy bear”)
- åbäke
References
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- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- Swedish lemmas
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