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Danish
Noun
intet n
- nothingness
- Synonyms: intethed, tomhet
Pronoun
intet
- neuter singular of ingen
- nothing (not any thing)
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
intet n
- nothingness
- Synonyms: intetjet, tomhet
Pronoun
intet
- neuter singular of ingen
- nothing (not any thing)
- Synonyms: ingenting, ikke noe
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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish intit, neuter of ingin (“no one”), the equivalent of modern Swedish ingen, whose modern neuter form is inget (“no (as a determiner), nothing (as a pronoun)”).
Pronoun
intet
- (somewhat solemn except for in certain expressions) nothing, no
- Synonyms: inget, ingenting
Detta är på intet sätt ett nytt fenomen- This is by no means a new phenomenon
- (nominalized, often as "tomma intet" (the empty nothing)) the nothing, the nothingness
skapa något ur tomma intet- create something out of thin air
stirra ut i tomma intet- stare into space
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