pingvin

Danish

Etymology

From French pingouin.

Noun

pingvin c (singular definite pingvinen, plural indefinite pingviner)

1. penguin

Declension

Declension of pingvin

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	pingvin	pingvinen	pingviner	pingvinerne
genitive	pingvins	pingvinens	pingviners	pingvinernes

References

• “pingvin” in Den Danske Ordbog

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Pinguin, from Dutch pinguïn, from English penguin, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpiŋɡvin]
• Rhymes: -iŋɡvin
• Hyphenation: ping‧vin
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

pingvin (plural pingvinek)

1. penguin

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	pingvin	pingvinek
accusative	pingvint	pingvineket
dative	pingvinnek	pingvineknek
instrumental	pingvinnel	pingvinekkel
causal-final	pingvinért	pingvinekért
translative	pingvinné	pingvinekké
terminative	pingvinig	pingvinekig
essive-formal	pingvinként	pingvinekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pingvinben	pingvinekben
superessive	pingvinen	pingvineken
adessive	pingvinnél	pingvineknél
illative	pingvinbe	pingvinekbe
sublative	pingvinre	pingvinekre
allative	pingvinhez	pingvinekhez
elative	pingvinből	pingvinekből
delative	pingvinről	pingvinekről
ablative	pingvintől	pingvinektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	pingviné	pingvineké
non-attributive possessive – plural	pingvinéi	pingvinekéi

Possessive forms of pingvin

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pingvinem	pingvinjeim
2nd person sing.	pingvined	pingvinjeid
3rd person sing.	pingvinje	pingvinjei
1st person plural	pingvinünk	pingvinjeink
2nd person plural	pingvinetek	pingvinjeitek
3rd person plural	pingvinjük	pingvinjeik

Derived terms

Compound words

• császárpingvin
• szamárpingvin

Further reading

• pingvin in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English penguin and French pingouin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋʋiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

pingvin m (definite singular pingvinen, indefinite plural pingviner, definite plural pingvinene)

1. a penguin

References

• “pingvin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English penguin and French pingouin.

Noun

pingvin m (definite singular pingvinen, indefinite plural pingvinar, definite plural pingvinane)

1. a penguin

References

• “pingvin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

pìngvīn m (Cyrillic spelling пѝнгвӣн)

1. penguin

Declension

Declension of pingvin

	singular	plural
nominative	pìngvīn	pingvini
genitive	pingvína	pingvina
dative	pingvinu	pingvinima
accusative	pingvina	pingvine
vocative	pingvine	pingvini
locative	pingvinu	pingvinima
instrumental	pingvinom	pingvinima

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pinɡʋíːn/

Noun

pingvȋn m anim

1. penguin

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	pingvín
gen. sing.	pingvína
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	pingvín	pingvína	pingvíni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	pingvína	pingvínov	pingvínov
dative (dajȃlnik)	pingvínu	pingvínoma	pingvínom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	pingvína	pingvína	pingvíne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	pingvínu	pingvínih	pingvínih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	pingvínom	pingvínoma	pingvíni

Further reading

• “pingvin”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

Swedish

en pingvin

Etymology

From French pingouin, attested from 1685.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪŋˈviːn/

Noun

pingvin c

1. penguin

   pingviner på ett isflak

   penguins on an ice floe

Declension

Declension of pingvin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pingvin	pingvins
	definite	pingvinen	pingvinens
plural	indefinite	pingviner	pingviners
	definite	pingvinerna	pingvinernas

Derived terms

• dvärgpingvin
• kejsarpingvin
• kungspingvin
• Galapagospingvin
• glasögonpingvin

References

• pingvin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• pingvin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)