insekt

See also: Insekt

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪnsɛkt]

Noun

insekt m inan

1. insect

   Synonym: hmyz

Declension

Declension of insekt (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	insekt	insekty
genitive	insektu	insektů
dative	insektu	insektům
accusative	insekt	insekty
vocative	insekte	insekty
locative	insektu	insektech
instrumental	insektem	insekty

Related terms

• See sekce

Further reading

• insekt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• insekt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Latin īnsectum, from insecāre (“to cut up or into, incise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ensɛkt/, [enˈsɛɡ̊d̥]

Noun

insekt n (singular definite insektet, plural indefinite insekter)

1. bug, insect, Insecta
2. Hexapoda

Inflection

Declension of insekt

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	insekt	insektet	insekter	insekterne
genitive	insekts	insektets	insekters	insekternes

Related terms

• urinsekt ("entognath")

See also

• insekt on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsɛkt/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: in‧sekt
• Rhymes: -ɛkt

Noun

insekt m (plural insekten, diminutive insektje n)

1. Superseded spelling of insect.

Usage notes

• The spelling insekt was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

insekt n (definite singular insektet, indefinite plural insekt or insekter, definite plural insekta or insektene)

1. an insect (arthropod)

Derived terms

• insektbitt
• insektmiddel

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

insekt n (definite singular insektet, indefinite plural insekt, definite plural insekta)

1. an insect

Derived terms

• insektmiddel

Anagrams

• kniset, kniste, nikset, sinket, sikten, skeint, skinet, skiten, skitne, sniket, snikte, stikne, stinke

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnsectum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.sɛkt/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -insɛkt
• Syllabification: in‧sekt

Noun

insekt m animal

1. vermin (insect)

   Synonym: szkodnik

2. (dated) insect (any arthropod of class Insecta)

   Synonym: owad

Declension

Declension of insekt

	singular	plural
nominative	insekt	insekty
genitive	insekta	insektów
dative	insektowi	insektom
accusative	insekta	insekty
instrumental	insektem	insektami
locative	insekcie	insektach
vocative	insekcie	insekty

Further reading

• insekt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• insekt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• ìnsekat (Bosnia)

Etymology

From Latin insectum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ǐnsekt/
• Hyphenation: in‧sekt

Noun

ìnsekt m (Cyrillic spelling ѝнсект)

1. insect

Declension

Declension of insekt

	singular	plural
nominative	ìnsekt	insekti
genitive	insekta	ìnsekātā
dative	insektu	insektima
accusative	insekta	insekte
vocative	insekte	insekti
locative	insektu	insektima
instrumental	insektom	insektima

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inséːkt/

Noun

insẹ̑kt m inan

1. insect

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	insékt
gen. sing.	insékta
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	insékt	insékta	insékti
genitive (rodȋlnik)	insékta	inséktov	inséktov
dative (dajȃlnik)	inséktu	inséktoma	inséktom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	insékt	insékta	insékte
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	inséktu	inséktih	inséktih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	inséktom	inséktoma	insékti

Further reading

• “insekt”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Noun

insekt c

1. insect

Declension

Declension of insekt
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	insekt	insekten	insekter	insekterna
Genitive	insekts	insektens	insekters	insekternas

Anagrams

• etnisk, sikten, skiten, tikens