jeg
See also: jég
English
Noun
jeg (plural jegs)
- (machinery) Alternative form of jig
Danish
Etymology 1
From Old Norse ek, Old East Norse jak, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂, *eǵh₂óm.
Alternative forms
- a, æ, ja, jæ (dialectal)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [jɑ̈(j)]
- Rhymes: -aj
Pronoun
jeg (accusative mig, possessive min)
- (personal) I
Usage notes
Frequently omitted in informal, written contexts, such as text messaging, memoranda and profiles.
See also
Danish personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
| formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common(noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter(noun) | det | dets | |||||
| reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
| archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
| reflexive | – | sig | |||||
Etymology 2
From the pronoun. Calque of German Ich (“ego”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈjɑj]
Noun
jeg n (singular definite jeget, plural indefinite jeger)
- self (an individual person as the object of his own reflective consciousness)
- (psychology) I, ego
- (literature) first-person narrator
Inflection
Declension of jeg
| neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | jeg | jeget | jeger | jegerne |
| genitive | jegs | jegets | jegers | jegernes |
Synonyms
- (literature): jegfortæller
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jeː/
- Rhymes: -eː
Pronoun
jeg
- (Suðuroy) I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
Synonyms
- eg (standard Faroese)
Icelandic
Pronoun
jeg
- Archaic form of ég.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse ek (Old East Norse jek). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jæɪ̯/
Audio (file) - (Fredrikstad) IPA(key): (stressed) [jæɪ̯], (unstressed) [jæ]
Pronoun
jeg
- I (first-person singular personal pronoun)
See also
Personal pronouns in Bokmål
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Second | – | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
| Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | ||||
| masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | |||||
| feminine (noun) | den | dens | ||||||
| masculine (noun) | ||||||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | ||||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
| Second | – | dere | deres | |||||
| Third | general | de | dem | deres | ||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
References
- “jeg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Romanian
Alternative forms
- jig
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic жєгъ (žegŭ), from Proto-Slavic *žegъ.
Noun
jeg n (plural jeguri)
- dirt, filth
Declension
Declension of jeg
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) jeg | jegul | (niște) jeguri | jegurile |
| genitive/dative | (unui) jeg | jegului | (unor) jeguri | jegurilor |
| vocative | jegule | jegurilor | ||
Synonyms
- murdărie, mizerie
Derived terms
- jegos