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fågel

fågel

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • fogel

Noun

fågel c

  1. (zoology) a bird

Declension

Inflection of fågel 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative fågel fågeln fåglar fåglarna
Genitive fågels fågelns fåglars fåglarnas

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Etymology

From Old Swedish fughl, foghl, from Old Norse fogl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz. Cognate with English fowl. In the mid 19th century, the spelling fogel was common, but SAOL 6 (1889) lists the spelling as fågel only.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /foːgəl/

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