tysken

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Danish

Proper noun

tysken c

  1. (archaic or humorous) Fritz; the Germans, or especially the German army, taken as a unit
    • 2016, Thomas Olesen Løkken, Povl Dam: Ungdom, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
      ... og om vandringerne syd på for at slås med fjenden, med tysken, som de sagde. Thi fjenden var altid tysken.
      ... and of the marches down south to fight the enemy, Fritz, as they said. For the enemy was always Fritz.
    • 2014, Jesper Asmussen, Gendarmstien, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
      Ja, det er netop derfor, vi alle må af sted, / for ellers kommer tysken og hjælper os dermed; / og derfor vil jeg slås som tapper landsoldat.
      Yes, it is precisely for that reason that we must all go, / for otherwise, Fritz shall come and help us to do so; / and therefore, I intend to fight as a brave rural soldier.
  2. the German language
    • 1818, Rasmus Christian Nielsen RASK, Undersögelse om det gamle nordiske eller islandske Sprogs Oprindelse, etc, page 204:
      Tysken har endnu gaaet videre og bortkastet dette e, saa at den i Navneordene slet ingen Endelse har til Ejeformen af Hunkjönnet.
      German has gone even further and discarded this e, such that it has no ending whatsoever for feminine nouns in the genitive case.
    • 1837, Nordisk ugeskrift, page 133:
      Og så er der det sydlige Slesvig, hvor man engang talte Dansk, men hvor nu Tysken som en Kræft æder sig mer og mer ind i Landet.
      And then there is Southern Schleswig, where Danish was one spoken, but where German, like a tumour, eats its way further and further into the country.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

tysken m

  1. definite singular of tysk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tysken m

  1. definite singular of tysk

Swedish

Noun

tysken

  1. definite singular of tysk

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