"gnu" meaning in Danish

See gnu in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɡnuː/, [ɡ̊nuːˀ]
Etymology: From German Gnu, from Afrikaans ghnoe, from Bantu. Etymology templates: {{der|da|de|Gnu}} German Gnu, {{der|da|af|ghnoe}} Afrikaans ghnoe, {{der|da|bnt|-}} Bantu Head templates: {{head|da|noun|singular definite|gnuen||{{{sg-def-2}}}|||plural indefinite|gnuer||{{{pl-indef-2}}}||{{{pl-indef-3}}}||{{{com}}}|checkredlinks=1|f1accel-form=def|s|f4accel-form=indef|p|g=c|g2=|head=}} gnu c (singular definite gnuen, plural indefinite gnuer), {{da-noun|en|er}} gnu c (singular definite gnuen, plural indefinite gnuer) Inflection templates: {{da-noun-infl|en|er}}, {{da-noun-infl-base|g=c|gen-pl-def=gnuernes|gen-pl-def-2=|gen-pl-def-3=|gen-pl-indef=gnuers|gen-pl-indef-2=|gen-sg-def=gnuens|gen-sg-def-2=|gen-sg-indef=gnus|gen-sg-indef-2=|gen-sg-indef-3=|pl-def=gnuerne|pl-def-2=|pl-def-3=|pl-indef=gnuer|pl-indef-2=|pl-indef-3=|sg-def=gnuen|sg-def-2=|sg-indef=gnu}} Forms: gnuen [definite, singular], gnuer [indefinite, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], gnu [indefinite, nominative, singular], gnuen [definite, nominative, singular], gnuer [indefinite, nominative, plural], gnuerne [definite, nominative, plural], gnus [genitive, indefinite, singular], gnuens [definite, genitive, singular], gnuers [genitive, indefinite, plural], gnuernes [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. gnu, wildebeest Tags: common-gender

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Danish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-02-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.