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blå

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

Danish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /blɔːˀ/, [b̥lɔ̝ˀ], [plɔ̽ˀ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Adjective

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

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

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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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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. blue (colour)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

  1. blue

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

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Swedish

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blåbär (blueberries) är blå

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bloː/, [bl̪oə̯]
  • Audio:(file)

Adjective

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blå (comparative blåare, superlative blåast)

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

Declension

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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

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See also

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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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