frøken

See also: fröken

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German.

Noun

frøken c (singular definite frøkenen or frøknen, plural indefinite frøkener or frøkner)

  1. Miss, miss (an unmarried woman)

Inflection
Declension of frøken
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative frøken frøkenen
frøknen		 frøkener
frøkner		 frøkenerne
frøknerne
genitive frøkens frøkenens
frøknens		 frøkeners
frøkners		 frøkenernes
frøknernes

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German vroiken, vrouken.

Noun

frøken m or f (definite singular frøkenen or frøkna, indefinite plural frøkner, definite plural frøknene)

  1. Miss, miss (an unmarried woman)
  2. a female teacher

Usage notes

Rarely used in daily conversations. Common English words like mister, miss etc. have become very archaic in ordinary Norwegian speech.

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German vroiken, vrouken.

Noun

frøken f (definite singular frøkna, indefinite plural frøkner, definite plural frøknene)

  1. Miss, miss (an unmarried woman)
  2. a female teacher

Usage notes

As for Bokmål above.

References
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