fager
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish faghær, from Old Norse fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz, cognate with Norwegian fager, Swedish fager, Icelandic fagur, English fair.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fager (neuter fagert, plural and definite singular attributive fagre, comparative fagrere, superlative (predicative) fagrest, superlative (attributive) fagreste)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).
Adjective
fager
Derived terms
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to English fair.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fager (neuter fagert, plural fagre, comparative fagrare or (pre-1939) fegre, superlative fagrast or (pre-1939) fegst)
Derived terms
- andletsfager
- augnefager
- barmfager
- biletfager
- bjartfager
- bråfager
- disfager
- draumfager
- dronningfager
- duftfager
- dåmfager
- englefager
- eventyrfager
- fagerdom
- fagerdrós
- fagerdros
- fagergås
- fagerleik
- faksfager
- filmfager
- fjellfager
- fjørfager
- formfager
- fotfager
- fullfager
- gjetordsfager
- gjønfager
- gråtfager
- gullfager
- hårfager
- jentefager
- letfager, litfager
- manfager
- naturfager
- naudfager
- ovfager
- puppefager
- sjøfager
- sjåfager
- ufager
- underfager
- vårfager
References
- “fager” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish fagher, from Old Norse fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”).
Adjective
fager (comparative fagrare, superlative fagrast)
Declension
| Inflection of fager | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | fager | fagrare | fagrast |
| Neuter singular | fagert | fagrare | fagrast |
| Plural | fagra | fagrare | fagrast |
| Masculine plural3 | fagre | fagrare | fagrast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | fagre | fagrare | fagraste |
| All | fagra | fagrare | fagraste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Related terms
Further reading
- fager in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
- fager in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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