møbel

See also: möbel and Möbel

Danish

Etymology

From French meuble (“an item of furniture”), from Latin mōbile, neuter of mōbilis (“movable”). Compare German Möbel and Swedish möbel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /møːbəl/, [ˈmøːˀb̥əl]

Noun

møbel n (singular definite møblet or møbelet, plural indefinite møbler)

1. furniture, piece of furniture

Usage notes

Mostly used in plural, corresponding to the collective use of furniture.

Inflection

Declension of møbel

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	møbel	møblet møbelet	møbler	møblerne
genitive	møbels	møblets møbelets	møblers	møblernes

Descendants

• → Icelandic: mubla

Further reading

• “møbel” in Den Danske Ordbog
• møbel on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French meuble, from Latin mobilis.

Noun

møbel n (definite singular møbelet or møblet, indefinite plural møbel or møbler, definite plural møbla or møblene)

1. (piece of) furniture (an item, or items, (usually) in a room)

Usage notes

The indefinite singular (et møbel) is a piece of furniture. The plural forms relate to the mass noun furniture.

References

• “møbel” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French meuble, from Latin mobilis.

Noun

møbel n (definite singular møbelet, indefinite plural møbel or møblar, definite plural møbla or møblane)

1. (piece of) furniture (as above)

Usage notes

As above.

References

• “møbel” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.