intet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 Danish
  • 1.1 Noun
  • 1.2 Pronoun
    * 1.2.1 Derived terms
• 2 Norwegian Bokmål
  • 2.1 Noun
  • 2.2 Pronoun
    * 2.2.1 Derived terms
• 3 Swedish
  • 3.1 Etymology
  • 3.2 Pronoun
    * 3.2.1 Derived terms
  • 3.3 References

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intet n

1. nothingness
   Synonyms: intethed, tomhet

intet

1. neuter singular of ingen
   nothing (not any thing)

• intetsigende
• tilintetgøre

intet n

1. nothingness
   Synonyms: intetjet, tomhet

intet

1. neuter singular of ingen
   nothing (not any thing)
   Synonyms: ingenting, ikke noe

• intetsigende
• tilintetgjøre

From Old Swedish intit, neuter of ingin (“no one”), the equivalent of modern Swedish ingen, whose modern neuter form is inget (“no (as a determiner), nothing (as a pronoun)”).

intet

1. (somewhat solemn except for in certain expressions) nothing, no
   Synonyms: inget, ingenting
   Detta är på intet sätt ett nytt fenomen
   This is by no means [in no way] a new phenomenon
2. (nominalized, often as "tomma intet" (the empty nothing)) the nothing, the nothingness
   skapa något ur tomma intet
   create something out of thin air [the empty nothing]
   stirra ut i tomma intet
   stare into space [out into the empty nothing – can also be expressed as "stirra ut i luften"]

• gå om intet
• intet ont anande
• intetdera (formal)
• intetsägande
• tillintetgöra
• “intet”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “intet”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “intet”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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• Danish lemmas
• Danish nouns
• Danish neuter nouns
• Danish pronouns
• Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
• Norwegian Bokmål nouns
• Norwegian Bokmål neuter nouns
• Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms
• Norwegian Bokmål pronoun forms
• Swedish terms inherited from Old Swedish
• Swedish terms derived from Old Swedish
• Swedish lemmas
• Swedish pronouns
• Swedish solemn terms
• Swedish terms with usage examples
• Swedish nominalized adjectives