bæk

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bak"

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse bekkr (“brook, creek”). Cognate with English beck, Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛk/, [b̥ɛɡ̊]

Noun

bæk c (singular definite bækken, plural indefinite bække)

1. brook (a small stream)
2. brooklet (a little brook)

Inflection

Declension of bæk

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bæk	bækken	bække	bækkene
genitive	bæks	bækkens	bækkes	bækkenes

Derived terms

• mange bække små gør en stor å
• bækarve

See also

• å (larger)
• flod (much larger)

See also

• bæk on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da