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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

dokkar
daar, deka, dekan, deres, dika, dikka, dikkan, dikkons, dokka, dokkas, dokkers, dokkes, dokkor, døkkor, dåkkes, dår^[1] (all dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian ykkar (“of you two”), with initial d through an unattested intermediate *thykkar formed in analogy with thit (“you two”) and ther (“you”), from Old Norse ykkar, genitive form of the dual second person pronoun þit, it. Compare Faroese tykkara.

Determiner

dykkar

possessive of de; your (plural)

Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns
		first person	second person	reflexive	third person
		first person	second person	reflexive	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	nominative	eg, je¹	du	—	han	ho	det, dat²
	accusative	meg	deg	seg	han, honom¹	ho, henne	det, dat²
	dative²	meg	deg	seg	honom¹	henne	di²
	genitive	min	din	sin	hans	hennar, hennes¹	dess³
plural	nominative	me, vi, mid²	de, dokker, did², I²	—	dei
	accusative	oss, okker²	dykk, dokker, øder²	seg	dei, deim²
	dative²	oss, okker²	dykk, dokker, øder²	seg	deim²
	genitive	vår, okkar²	dykkar, dokkar, ødar²	sin	deira, deires¹

¹Obsolete. ²Landsmål. ³Rare or literary. Italic forms unofficial today.

References

^ Cf. Ivar Aasen (1850), “dikka”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎^[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

[rdp-we-cite_note-1] Cf. Ivar Aasen (1850), “dikka”, in Ordbog over det norske Folkesprog‎^[1] (in Danish), Oslo: Samlaget, published 2000

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