føle

føle is a Norwegian verb meaning to perceive through the senses or to experience an emotional or subjective state. It covers physical sensations such as pain, warmth, or cold, as well as emotional states such as happiness, sadness, or anxiety. The verb is widely used in everyday language and can express both objective sensation and subjective feeling.

Conjugation and usage: In Bokmål, the standard present tense is føler; past tense følte; past participle følt; infinitive føle. It forms compound tenses with auxiliary verbs (jeg har følt, hun har følt). It is typically transitive when there is a direct object (jeg føler smerte; han føler kulde) and can be reflexive to describe one’s own condition (jeg føler meg trøtt). Common expressions include føle på noe (to sense a physical sensation) and føle at noe er slik (to feel that something is so).

Etymology and relations: fø le derives from Old Norse and is cognate with the English verb feel. It belongs to the Germanic language family and has close relatives in other Scandinavian languages. The related noun følelse denotes the experience or sensation itself, while other derived forms appear in compounds and related expressions.

See also: følelse, kjenne, sansing.