Morphology Patterns
Understand how Norwegian Nynorsk words are built from prefixes, roots, and suffixes. Learn the meaning of common word parts and expand your vocabulary.
Prefixes
Word parts added before the root
From Old Norse *fyrir*, meaning 'for, on behalf of'. Indo-European root *per-*
From Proto-Germanic *ut-, indicating a process or result.
Old Norse origin, intensifier
Old Norse origin, prepositional prefix meaning 'in' or 'into'.
Germanic origin, intensifier/causative.
Germanic origin, indicates a process or result.
Old Norse origin, intensifying prefix.
Old Norse *fyrir*, meaning 'for, concerning'. Prepositional prefix.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'of' or 'from'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'together, with'. Compounding prefix.
Germanic prefix meaning 'thoroughly', 'completely'.
Old Norse origin, prepositional function.
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Roots
Core meaning-bearing word parts
Old Norse origin, meaning 'work'. Core meaning of the word.
Old Norse origin, related to knowledge
Old Norse origin, meaning 'education', 'formation', 'development'.
From Latin *concursus* (competition). Noun root.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'to show, teach'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'cut, average'.
Old Norse origin, from 'skrifa' (to write). Verbal root.
From French 'information', ultimately from Latin 'informatio'. Noun stem.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'position, arrangement, condition'.
Old Norse origin, meaning 'passage, way'.
Related to *skanna* 'scan, investigate', traces back to *forska* 'to research'.
Old Norse origin, related to 'finding' or 'discovery'. Base for social phenomena.
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Suffixes
Word parts added after the root
Germanic origin, genitive marker.
Nominalizing suffix, forming a noun from a verb.
Germanic nominalizing suffix.
Germanic origin, forming a verbal noun.
Nynorsk suffix forming nouns from verbs, indicating action or result.
Germanic origin, nominalizing suffix.
Nynorsk genitive marker, linking 'kommunikasjon' to 'marked'
Nominalizing suffix, forming a noun. Germanic origin.
Nynorsk nominalizing suffix, forming a noun from a verb.
Old Norse origin, nominalizing suffix forming a noun from the verb 'søk'.
Nynorsk derivational suffix forming a noun.
Germanic origin, genitive marker.
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