fotnot
Swedish
Etymology
fot + not, calque of German Fußnote, attested since 1902.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfuːtˌnuːt/
Noun
fotnot c
- a footnote
- Boken gav ett akademiskt intryck eftersom den hade många fotnoter
- The book gave an academic impression as it had a lot of footnotes
Usage notes
A jocular plural is fotnötter, superficially fot (“foot”) + nötter (“nuts”), imitating the umlaut plural of words like fot (“foot”), rot (“root”), mus (“mouse”), gås (“goose”), and tand (“tooth”). Fotnötter is sometimes mistakenly assumed to be the standard form due to frequent use.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | fotnot | fotnots |
| definite | fotnoten | fotnotens | |
| plural | indefinite | fotnoter | fotnoters |
| definite | fotnoterna | fotnoternas |
Jocular:
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | fotnot | fotnots |
| definite | fotnoten | fotnotens | |
| plural | indefinite | fotnötter | fotnötters |
| definite | fotnötterna | fotnötternas |