fabel

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Danish

Etymology

From Latin fābula (“tale”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fabel c (singular definite fablen or fabelen, plural indefinite fabler)

  1. fable

Inflection

Declension of fabel
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fabel fablen
fabelen 		fabler fablerne
genitive fabels fablens
fabelens 		fablers fablernes

Derived terms

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Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch fabele, from Old French fable, from Latin fābula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfaː.bəl/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: fa‧bel
  • Rhymes: -aːbəl

Noun

fabel f (plural fabelen or fabels, diminutive fabeltje n)

  1. A legend, a fable.
  2. Something untrue, a fable, a myth.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: fabel
  • → Indonesian: fabel
  • → Papiamentu: fabel (dated)
  • → West Frisian: fabel

Further reading

  • “fabel” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie.

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch fabel (“fable”), from Old French fable, from Latin fābula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: fa‧bêl

Noun

fabêl (first-person possessive fabelku, second-person possessive fabelmu, third-person possessive fabelnya)

  1. (literature) fable, a fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters.

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Latin fabula.

Noun

fabel m (definite singular fabelen, indefinite plural fabler, definite plural fablene)

  1. a fable

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Latin fabula.

Noun

fabel m (definite singular fabelen, indefinite plural fablar, definite plural fablane)

  1. a fable

Derived terms

References

Swedish

Noun

fabel c

  1. a fable

Declension

Declension of fabel 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fabel fabeln fabler fablerna
Genitive fabels fabelns fablers fablernas

References

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