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mængde

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Danish

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 mængde on Danish Wikipedia

Etymology

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From mange +‎ -de, either a new formation or inherited from Old Norse *mengd, from Proto-Germanic *managiþō, cognate with Swedish mängd, Dutch menigte, Old English menigdu. Old Icelandic has a different derivation, mengi, from *managį̄, cf. English many (the noun), German Menge and Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌲𐌴𐌹 (managei).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mængde c (singular definite mængden, plural indefinite mængder)

  1. amount, quantity
  2. number
  3. crowd
  4. (set theory) set

Inflection

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References

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