hjúkrunarkona

Icelandic

From hjúkrun (“nursing”) +‎ kona (“woman”).

hjúkrunarkona f (genitive singular hjúkrunarkonu, nominative plural hjúkrunarkonur)

a female nurse, a woman trained to provide care for the sick ^syn.
Nýbökuð hjúkrunarkona.
A newly qualified nurse.

The gender-neutral term hjúkrunarfræðingur may be used in favour of the term hjúkrunarkona.

declension of hjúkrunarkona

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
kona	singular		plural
nominative	hjúkrunarkona	hjúkrunarkonan	hjúkrunarkonur	hjúkrunarkonurnar
accusative	hjúkrunarkonu	hjúkrunarkonuna	hjúkrunarkonur	hjúkrunarkonurnar
dative	hjúkrunarkonu	hjúkrunarkonunni	hjúkrunarkonum	hjúkrunarkonunum
genitive	hjúkrunarkonu	hjúkrunarkonunnar	hjúkrunarkvenna	hjúkrunarkvennanna

(nurse):^def. (gender-neutral) hjúkrunarfræðingur, (female, colloquial and vernacular speech) hjúkka

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