mang en
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Compound formed by the words mang (from the Middle Norwegian noun mangr (“huge crowd”)) and the article en ("a/an"), at the same time undergoing influence from words as ingen ("nobody", "no one") and hvilken ("which", "what"), though these two words have not been formed in the same manner.
mang en (masculine singular mang en, feminine singular mang ei, neuter singular mangt or mangt et, plural mange)
Note that the plural form mange functions as an independent word (adjective), in the same way as English many.
The word carries a sense of formality when used in the singular; in colloquial speech, the word mye ("much") is therefore preferred when speaking of "much", as in "there is much to be done", while only mange is used for expressing "many", as in "there are many things for you to see".
When being applied to a feminine noun, one is free (in Bokmål, not Nynorsk) to choose between the feminine article ei and the masculine en, similar to the way one is free to inflect feminine nouns as masculine (also only in Bokmål).
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