grøntsag

Danish

Alternative forms

• grønsag

Etymology

From grønt (“vegetables”) +‎ sag (“thing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ʁɶnˌsæˀ]

Noun

grøntsag c (singular definite grøntsagen, plural indefinite grøntsager)

1. vegetable (a plant raised for some edible part of it)
2. vegetable (the edible part of such a plant)
3. vegetable ((metaphorically) a person whose body or brain has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment)

Inflection

Declension of grøntsag

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	grøntsag	grøntsagen	grøntsager	grøntsagerne
genitive	grøntsags	grøntsagens	grøntsagers	grøntsagernes

Descendants

• → Greenlandic: grøntsagi