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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
jeg (plural jegs)
- (machinery) Alternative form of jig
Danish[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Old Norse ek, Old East Norse jak, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂, *eǵh₂óm.
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
jeg (accusative mig, possessive min)
- (personal) I
Usage notes[edit]
Frequently omitted in informal, written contexts, such as text messaging, memoranda and profiles.
See also[edit]
Danish personal pronouns
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
common(noun) | den | dens | |||||
neuter(noun) | det | dets | |||||
reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
reflexive | – | sig |
Etymology 2[edit]
From the pronoun. Calque of German Ich (“ego”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
jeg n (singular definite jeget, plural indefinite jeger)
- self (an individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)
- (psychology) I, ego
- (literature) first-person narrator
Inflection[edit]
Declension of jeg
Synonyms[edit]
- (literature): jegfortæller
Faroese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
jeg
Synonyms[edit]
- eg (standard Faroese)
Icelandic[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
jeg
- Archaic form of ég.
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Danish jeg, from Old Norse ek (Old East Norse jek). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
jeg
- I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
See also[edit]
Personal pronouns in Bokmål
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | |||||
Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
Second | – | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | ||||
masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | |||||
feminine (noun) | den | dens | ||||||
masculine (noun) | ||||||||
neuter (noun) | det | dets | ||||||
reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
Second | – | dere | deres | |||||
Third | general | de | dem | deres | ||||
reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |
References[edit]
- “jeg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romanian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жєгъ (žegŭ), from Proto-Slavic *žegъ.
Noun[edit]
jeg n (plural jeguri)
Declension[edit]
Declension of jeg
Derived terms[edit]
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