Mette
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See also: mette
Danish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Contraction of Merete, from Margrethe (“Margaret”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Mette
- a female given name
Usage notes[edit]
- Popular in Denmark from the 1960s to the 1980s.
References[edit]
- [1] Danskernes Navne, based on CPR data: 52 922 females with the given name Mette have been registered in Denmark between about 1890 (=the population alive in 1967) and January 2005, with the frequency peak in the 1970s. Accessed on 19 May 2011.
Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Mette
- a female given name
Declension[edit]
Inflection of Mette (Kotus type 8*C/nalle, tt-t gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Mette | Metet | ||
genitive | Meten | Mettejen | ||
partitive | Metteä | Mettejä | ||
illative | Metteen | Metteihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Mette | Metet | ||
accusative | nom. | Mette | Metet | |
gen. | Meten | |||
genitive | Meten | Mettejen Metteinrare | ||
partitive | Metteä | Mettejä | ||
inessive | Metessä | Meteissä | ||
elative | Metestä | Meteistä | ||
illative | Metteen | Metteihin | ||
adessive | Metellä | Meteillä | ||
ablative | Meteltä | Meteiltä | ||
allative | Metelle | Meteille | ||
essive | Mettenä | Metteinä | ||
translative | Meteksi | Meteiksi | ||
abessive | Metettä | Meteittä | ||
instructive | — | Metein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics[edit]
- Mette is the 281st most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 1,846 female individuals (and as a middle name to 356 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German mettī, from Old High German mattina, a borrowing of Late Latin mattina from Classical Latin (laudēs) mātūtīnae (“morning (praise)”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Mette f (genitive Mette, plural Metten)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Mette [feminine]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “Mette” in Duden online
- “Mette” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Mette” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
Norwegian[edit]
Proper noun[edit]
Mette
- a female given name of Danish origin
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