mindre
Danish edit
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From Old Danish minnæ, mindræ, from Old Norse minni, from Proto-Germanic *minnizô, cognate with Swedish mindre, German minder.
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mindre (uninflected)
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mindre (uninflected)
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mindre
- inflection of mindern:
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mindre
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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mindre
mindre (indeclinable)
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mindre
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- “mindre” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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mindre
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mindre
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Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse minni, from Proto-Germanic *minnizô.
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mindre
- smaller; comparative degree of liten
- less (comparative of lite)
- I have less tea than you - Jag har mindre te än du (colloquial), Jag har mindre te än vad du har (formal)
- I have less tea than coffee - Jag har mindre te än kaffe
- I had to wait less than ten minutes - Jag fick vänta mindre än tio minuter
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mindre
- Comparative of lite
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- ("med mindre") Recommendations against the use of this word in legal prose, together with suggested replacements, are found in Svarta listan : Ord och fraser som kan ersättas i författningsspråk (4th ed., 2011), published by the government of Sweden. The recommendations apply primarily to governmental texts; they may or may not apply to other legal prose.