bokmål
Danish edit
Noun edit
bokmål n (definite singular bokmålet) (uncountable)
- Bokmål (one of Norway's two official languages)
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Norwegian bokmål.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bokmål m (uncountable)
- Bokmål (Norwegian written language)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
bok (“book”) + mål (“language”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bokmål n (definite singular bokmålet) (uncountable)
- Bokmål (one of Norway's two official languages)
See also edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
bok (“book”) + mål (“language”), equivalent to Old Norse bókamál, which meant Latin.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bokmål n (definite singular bokmålet, indefinite plural bokmål, definite plural bokmåla)
- written language; the language used in books
- Synonyms: skriftmål, skriftspråk
- 1869, Ivar Aasen, Minningar fraa Maalstriden um Hausten 1858:
- Um den sokallade „falske Fyresetningi,“ at eit Folk skulde sjølv kunna velja seg eit Bokmaal, kunde der vera ymist aa segja.
- About the so-called “false precondition”, that a people is able to choose a written language, one could say various things.
- (uncountable) Bokmål (one of Norway's two official languages)
- Synonyms: norskdansk (literally “Norwegian Danish”), dansknorsk
Derived terms edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
bok + mål, from the Danish bogmaal used in Norway since the 1850s to mean written standard language as opposed to dialects. Since 1929 this has been the official name for the written language, which was previously known as riksmål.
Noun edit
bokmål n
- Bokmål (language)
Declension edit
| Declension of bokmål | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | bokmål | bokmålet | — | — |
| Genitive | bokmåls | bokmålets | — | — |