fager

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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)

  1. (poetic) fair, pretty, wonderful

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fagr, from Proto-Germanic *fagraz, from Proto-Indo-European *ph₂ḱ- (to fasten, place).

Adjective

fager

  1. fair (of good appearance), pretty

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)

  1. fair (of good appearance), pretty

Derived terms

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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)

  1. (dated or poetic) fair (of good appearance), pretty

Declension

Inflection of fager
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular fager fagrare fagrast
neuter singular fagert fagrare fagrast
plural fagra fagrare fagrast
masculine plural2 fagre fagrare fagrast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 fagre fagrare fagraste
all fagra fagrare fagraste

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.

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