forkortelse

Danish

Etymology

Verbal noun to forkorte (“shorten, abridge, abbreviate”) +‎ -else, from Middle Low German vorkorten, from kort (“short”), from Latin curtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔrˈkɔrtəlsə/, [fʌˈkʰɒːd̥l̩sə]

Noun

forkortelse c (singular definite forkortelsen, plural indefinite forkortelser)

1. abbreviation (shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase)
2. shortening
3. abridgment
4. cut
5. contraction
6. reduction

Inflection

Declension of forkortelse

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	forkortelse	forkortelsen	forkortelser	forkortelserne
genitive	forkortelses	forkortelsens	forkortelsers	forkortelsernes

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From forkorte +‎ -else.

Noun

forkortelse m (definite singular forkortelsen, indefinite plural forkortelser, definite plural forkortelsene)

1. an abbreviation (shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase)

   Synonym: abbreviering

Synonyms

• forkorting

References

• “forkortelse” in The Bokmål Dictionary.