tilfelli

== Icelandic == === Etymology === From Old Norse tilfelli see there for more. Cognate with Swedish tillfälle, Norwegian Bokmål tilfelle, Norwegian Nynorsk tilfelle, Danish tilfælde. Compare German Zufall (“chance, coincidence”). === Noun === tilfelli n (genitive singular tilfellis, nominative plural tilfelli) case, instance, circumstance ==== Declension ==== === References === Blöndal, Sigfús; Björg Þorláksdóttir Blöndal; Jón Ófeigsson; Holger Wiehe (1924), “tilfelli”, in Íslensk-Dönsk Orðabók / Islandsk-Dansk Ordbog‎[2] (in Danish), Reykjavík: Prentsmiðjan Gutenberg == Old Norse == === Etymology === From Middle Low German toval, itself ultimately a calque of Latin accidens, possibly via Middle High German intermediary zuoval. === Noun === tilfelli n case, occurrence, circumstance accident (grammar) a case ==== Declension ==== This noun needs an inflection-table template. === References ===