landeplage

Danish

Etymology

land +‎ -e- +‎ plage, "scourge of the land".

Noun

landeplage

1. (dated) something that negatively affects everyone living in some area
   • 1849, Henrik Hertz, Hundrede Aar: polemisk Comedie i fire Decorationer med Forspil, Efterspil og Parabaser, page 148:

     Ei kan med Bajonetter / Ægyptens Pascha jage / Fra sine Bomulds-Sletter / Græshoppens Landeplage.

     The pasha of Egypt cannot / with bayonets chase / from his cotton fields / the scourge that is the locust.

   • 1896, Alfr Lehmann, Overtro og trolddom fra de æeldste tider til vore dage:

     Man mente ved Straffenes Strænghed at kunne sætte en Stopper for den Landeplage, man mente var kommen; ...

     It was believed that, with the severity of the punishments, one could put a stop to the scourge of the land that it was felt had arrived; ...

2. a hit song (song that is played frequently for a time)
   • 2013, Karl Aage Rasmussen, Alle farver, alle sjæle: En bog om George Gershwin, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     I januar 1920 pladeindspillede han sangen for Columbia Records, og nu blev den en sand landeplage.

     In January 1920, he recorded the song for Columbia Records, and it now became a true hit song.

   • 2011, Stig Matthiesen, Poul Krebs - Der er noget ved alting, ArtPeople, →ISBN:

     En sang med potentiale til at blive en landeplage!

     A song with the potential to become a hit!

   • 1965, Johannes Fabricius, Carl Nielsen, 1865-1931: En Billedbiografi. A Pictorial Biography:

     Da komponisten året efter skrev endnu en folkesang med titlen »Jens Vejmand«, oplevede denne at blive en landeplage.

     When, the year after, the composer wrote another folk song titled "Jens Road-mender", this song experienced becoming a hit song.^[sic]

Declension

Declension of landeplage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	landeplage	landeplagen	landeplager	landeplagerne
genitive	landeplages	landeplagens	landeplagers	landeplagernes