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morgen

See also: Morgen

English

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Etymology

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From Dutch morgen and German Morgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning. Doublet of morn and morrow.

Noun

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morgen (plural morgen or morgens)

  1. (chiefly historical) A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent to about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. [from 17th c.]
    • 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, HarperCollins, published 1993, page 68:
      ‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz. Compare Norwegian Bokmål morgen, Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Dutch morgen, and German Morgen.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔr.ən/, /ˈmɒːən/, [ˈmɒ̝ːɒ̝n], [ˈmɔːɔn]

Noun

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morgen c

  1. morning (the part of the day after midnight and before midday)

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch morgen, from Old Dutch morgan, from Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”).

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Compare Low German Morgen, German Morgen, West Frisian moarn, English morn, morrow, Danish morgen, Swedish morgon.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/
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  • Hyphenation: mor‧gen
  • Rhymes: -ɔrɣən

Adverb

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morgen

  1. tomorrow
    Ik zie je morgen op school. ― I'll see you at school tomorrow.
    We gaan morgen naar de film. ― We're going to the movies tomorrow.
    Morgen is het haar verjaardag. ― Tomorrow is her birthday.

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Descendants

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  • Afrikaans: môre
  • Jersey Dutch: mârxje, mârxe, mârge
  • Negerhollands: morg, moruk, morgen
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: morek (dated)
  • Petjo: morhen

Noun

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morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)

  1. morning
    Synonym: ochtend

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Interjection

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morgen

  1. Clipping of goedemorgen.

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German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German morgene, from Old High German morgane, from Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin. Cognate with English morrow.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔrɡən/, [ˈmɔʁ-], [ˈmɔɐ̯-], [ˈmɔː-], [-ɡən], [-ɡŋ̍]
  • IPA(key): /mɔrŋ/, /mɔrjən/ (colloquial variants)
  • Audio (Austria):(file)
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Adverb

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morgen

  1. tomorrow
    morgen früh ― tomorrow morning
    morgen Abend ― tomorrow evening
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-3 -2 -1 today +1 +2 +3
vor drei Tagen,
vorvorgestern,
ehevorgestern		 vorgestern gestern heute morgen übermorgen
in drei Tagen,
überübermorgen

Further reading

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  • “morgen” in Duden online
  • “morgen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

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Noun

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morgen

  1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of morwe

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Danish morgen, from Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). Compare Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Dutch morgen, German Morgen.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /ˈmoːrˌən/, [ˈmoːˌɳ̍]

Noun

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morgen m (definite singular morgenen, indefinite plural morgener or morgner, definite plural morgenene or morgnene)

  1. morning (the part of the day when the night ends and the day begins, dawn)

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Old English

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin.

Cognate with Old Frisian morgen, Old Saxon morgan, Old Dutch morgan, Old High German morgan, Old Norse morgunn. Compare also (from the alternative form *murginaz) Old Norse myrginn and Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍃 (maurgins).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmor.ɡen/, [ˈmorˠ.ɣen]

Noun

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morgen m

  1. morning
    on morgen
    in the morning
  2. tomorrow

Declension

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Declension of morgen (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative morgen morgnas
accusative morgen morgnas
genitive morgnes morgna
dative morgne morgnum

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