Norsk Ordbank - Nynorsk 2012

Version from 15.09.2026.

Norsk ordbank – Nynorsk is a lexical database that reflects the spelling reform which came into force on 1 August 2012 and later adjustments made to the official Nynorsk orthography by the Language Council of Norway (Språkrådet).

From this version, last updated on 15 September 2026, onwards, Norsk ordbank is distributed as a full-form list. The list contains all possible inflected forms of the lemmas (i.e. the headwords) in accordance with the current orthography. Each line in the file contains one inflected form of a lemma, together with part of speech, morphological features, compound segmentation and source information. Parts of speech and morphological features are coded according to the Universal Dependencies (UD) tagset, see https://universaldependencies.org.

The dataset contains all lemmas with full forms that meet at least one of the following criteria: they have been manually approved, they have Nynorskordboka (NOB) at https://ordbokene.no/nob/nn/ as their source, they belong to sources that were included in earlier editions of Norsk ordbank (such as TILLEGG, NOBFORSLAG etc.), or they come from Norsk Ordbok (NO) after approval, see https://norsk-ordbok.no/nno. The source is listed on every line and can be used to filter the material further, for example if one only wants to include words that appear in Nynorskordboka.

The full-form list also contains forms that are conceivable but in practice rarely or never used, for example plural forms such as "snøar" ("snow" Noun Masc Pl).

Format: the file is a tab-separated text file in UTF-8 with one header line and seven columns:

This version contains 122.941 lemmas and 627.666 full forms.

See the documentation file for more information.