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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

hva.

what (interrogative pronoun)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

pron/ʋɑː/
  1. what (interrogative pronoun)

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Danish hvad, from Old Norse hvat, from Proto-Germanic *hwat, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod. The loss of the final consonant is also common in Danish, but was reinforced by native Norwegian dialects; cf. Nynorsk kva and eastern dialect forms such as (h)å.

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