dørenes

Dørenes is the genitive plural form of the Norwegian noun dør, meaning door. It is used to indicate possession or association by multiple doors, as in dørenes farge, the color of the doors.

In Bokmål, the standard declension of døren goes as follows: indefinite singular dør; definite singular døren; indefinite plural dører; definite plural dørene; genitive singular dørens; genitive plural dørenes. The form dørenes specifically marks a possessive relation for more than one door (the doors’ ...).

Usage notes: dørenes is primarily seen in written or formal Norwegian. In everyday speech, speakers often rephrase possessives to avoid the genitive, for example by saying fargen til dørene ("the color of the doors") rather than dørenes farge. The genitive plural mirrors common Scandinavian patterns, with Danish and Swedish having equivalent forms like dørernes and dörrarnas, respectively.

Etymology and cognates: dørenes derives from the Norwegian dør (door) and shares cognates with Danish dør and Swedish dörr, all tracing back to Old Norse origins. The genitive plural ending -enes is a common Norwegian way to form possessives for plural nouns.

See also: døren (the door), dørene (the doors), dør (door).