brøk
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Low German brök, brok (“broken (number)”), from Middle Low German bröke, broke, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach”), cognate with English breach, German Bruch, Dutch breuk (Swedish bråk is also borrowed from Low German).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
brøk c (singular definite brøken, plural indefinite brøker)
- (arithmetic) fraction (ratio of two integers)
Declension edit
Declension of brøk
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Greenlandic: brøki
References edit
- “brøk” in Den Danske Ordbog
- brøk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From German Low German brok, brök.
Noun edit
brøk m (definite singular brøken, indefinite plural brøker, definite plural brøkene)
- (arithmetic) a fraction (ratio of two integers)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “brøk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From German Low German brok, brök.
Noun edit
brøk m (definite singular brøken, indefinite plural brøkar, definite plural brøkane)
- (arithmetic) a fraction (part of a whole)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “brøk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.