fans
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fans
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fans
- third-person singular simple present indicative of fan
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fans
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fans
Usage notes edit
Contrary to English usage, fans is used even when there is only one fan, rather than fan. This is likely because the lack of plurals in the language.
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fans
French edit
Noun edit
fans m or f
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fans
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
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fans m or f
References edit
- ^ fan in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Present active participle of for (“speak, say”).
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
fāns (genitive fantis); third-declension one-termination participle
Declension edit
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
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Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | fāns | fantēs | fantia | ||
Genitive | fantis | fantium | |||
Dative | fantī | fantibus | |||
Accusative | fantem | fāns | fantēs fantīs |
fantia | |
Ablative | fante fantī1 |
fantibus | |||
Vocative | fāns | fantēs | fantia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
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fans
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from fans, the English plural of fan, whence also Norwegian Nynorsk countable fan. Ultimately an English clipping of fanatic.
Noun edit
fans m (definite singular fansen, uncountable)
- (collective, colloquial) fans
- Spørst om fansen godtar det.
- Depends on whether the fans accept it.
- indefinite plural of fan
- Han har mange fans.
- He has many fans.
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
- fanst (current standard form)
Verb edit
fans
References edit
- “fans” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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fans
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fans
- indefinite genitive singular of fan
- definite genitive singular of fan
- indefinite plural of fan
- indefinite genitive plural of fan
- definite plural of fan
- definite genitive plural of fan