Sandefjord

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Sandefjord

  1. a town with bystatus and municipality of Vestfold, Norway. It was enlarged on 1 January 2017 when the municipalities of Andebu and Stokke were merged with it.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From a fjord name.

Proper noun

Sandefjord m (definite Sandefjorden)

  1. a town with bystatus and municipality of Vestfold, Norway. It was enlarged on 1 January 2017 when the municipalities of Andebu and Stokke were merged with it.
  2. (definite form) synonym of Sandefjordsfjorden

Usage notes

In 2006, there was a debate about changing the name of the pleonasm Sandefjordsfjord to Sandefjorden (definite form), but ended with no change.

Derived terms

  • Sandefjordsfjorden

Swedish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Norwegian Sandefjord.

Proper noun

Sandefjord m (definite Sandefjorden)

  1. a town and municipality of Vestfold, Norway

Derived terms

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