jeg
jeg (pluraljegs)
FromOld Norseek, Old East Norsejak, fromProto-Germanic*ek,*ik(“I”), fromProto-Indo-European*eǵh₂óm,*eǵh₂óm.
jeg (accusativemig,possessivemin)
Frequently omitted in informal, written contexts, such as text messaging, memoranda and profiles.
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Second | modern /informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
| formal (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common (noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | |||||
| indefinite | man | en | ens | ||||
| reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
| archaic /formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
| reflexive | – | sig | |||||
From the pronoun.Calque ofGermanIch(“ego”).
jeg n (singular definitejeget,plural indefinitejeger)
| neuter gender | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | jeg | jeget | jeger | jegerne |
| genitive | jegs | jegets | jegers | jegernes |
jeg
jeg
FromDanishjeg, fromOld Norseek (Old East Norsejek). Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*eǵh₂óm.
jeg
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
| Second | general | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
| formal (rare) | De | Dem | Deres | |||||
| Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | ||||
| masculine (person) | han | ham /han | hans | |||||
| feminine (noun) | den | dens | ||||||
| masculine (noun) | ||||||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | ||||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
| Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
| Second | general | dere | deres | |||||
| formal (very rare) | De | Dem | Deres | |||||
| Third | general | de | dem | deres | ||||
| reflexive | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | ||
Borrowed fromOld Church Slavonicжєгъ(žegŭ), fromProto-Slavic*žegъ.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | jeg | jegul | jeguri | jegurile | |
| genitive-dative | jeg | jegului | jeguri | jegurilor | |
| vocative | jegule | jegurilor | |||
