blå

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See also: BLA, bl a, bl.a., bla, blá, and blä

Danish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse blár (blue), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (blue).

Pronunciation

Adjective

blå (neuter blåt, plural and definite singular attributive blå)

  1. blue (blue-colored)
  2. (as a noun) n blue (colour)

Derived terms

See also

Colors in Danish · farver (layout · text)
     hvid      grå      sort
             rød; højrød              orange; brun              gul; flødefarvet
             lime              grøn             
             cyan; turkis              azurblå              blå
             violet; indigo              magenta; lilla              lyserød

Norwegian Bokmål

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Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Old Norse blár (blue), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (blue).

Pronunciation

Adjective

blå (neuter singular blått, definite singular and plural blå or blåe, comparative blåere, indefinite superlative blåest, definite superlative blåeste)

  1. blue (colour)

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Old Norse blár (blue), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (blue). Akin to English blue.

Pronunciation

Adjective

blå (masculine and feminine blå, neuter blått, definite singular and plural blåe/blå, comparative blåare, indefinite superlative blåast, definite superlative blåaste)

  1. blue

Derived terms

See also

Colors in Norwegian Nynorsk · fargar (layout · text)
     kvit      grå      svart
             raud              oransje; brun              gul
                          grøn             
             (turkis)                           blå
                          rosa; lilla              rosa

References

Swedish

blåbär (blueberries) är blå

Etymology

From Old Norse blár (blue), from Proto-Germanic *blēwaz (blue).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bloː/,
  • Audio (Gotland):(file)
  • Rhymes: -oː

Adjective

blå (comparative blåare, superlative blåast)

  1. blue
  2. (politics) of or pertaining to conservatives or liberals in European politics

Declension

Inflection of blå
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular blå blåare blåast
neuter singular blått blåare blåast
plural blå, blåa blåare blåast
masculine plural2 blå, blåa blåare blåast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 blå, blåe blåare blåaste
all blå, blåa blåare blåare

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Derived terms

See also

Colors in Swedish · färger (layout · text)
     vit      grå      svart
             röd; karmosin, karmosinröd              orange; brun              gul; beige
             limegrön              grön             
             cyan (rare) turkos (common); teal              azur              blå
             lila; indigo              magenta; purpur              rosa (common), skär (uncommon)

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