How do you use Jespersen in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like linguist, plus the exact meaning.
Jespersen in a sentence
Jespersen meaning
A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
Synonyms of Jespersen
Using Jespersen
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname from Danish or Norwegian.
- Useful related words include: otto jespersen, linguist, linguistic scientist.
- In the example corpus, jespersen often appears in combinations such as: jespersen was, in jespersen.
Context around Jespersen
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jespersen
- In this selection, "jespersen" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, louisa, kerrn, joni, leader, mobius and otto stand out and add context to how "jespersen" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accidentally put jespersen in copy and and seth jespersen had singles. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jespersen" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jespersen
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Jespersen was more outgoing. (4 words)
Nielsen, Badura and Seth Jespersen had singles. (7 words)
It was updated in his dictionary Novial Lexike in 1930, Jespersen, Otto (1930). (13 words)
Language sample for comparison Here is the Lord's Prayer in Novial and several related languages: Criticism As Jespersen relates in his autobiography, in 1934 he proposed an orthographic reform to Novial, which displeased a part of the users. (39 words)
Referring to the planned privatisation of 260 apartments in the ‘hard ghetto’ of Mjolnerparken, a housing project in Copenhagen, Greta Kerrn Jespersen, leader of the Bovita social housing plan, said it was no “big disaster”. (35 words)
Joni Jespersen, Mobius/Hemingford Telephone Company Community Enhancement Coordinator, touted, “The foundation has long been a dream to support the many community projects that can benefit from grants but don’t have the structure. (34 words)
Example sentences (16)
Schibsbye was a student of Jespersen's and co-author of the sixth volume –Morphology –of Jespersen's seven volume Modern English Grammar.
One of the such incident that had reported five years following the tragic murder of Louisa Jespersen and Maren, it was a distressing video of their beheaded bodies resurfaced on the internet.
Referring to the planned privatisation of 260 apartments in the ‘hard ghetto’ of Mjolnerparken, a housing project in Copenhagen, Greta Kerrn Jespersen, leader of the Bovita social housing plan, said it was no “big disaster”.
Jespersen was more outgoing.
Jespersen was on a month-long hiking holiday in Morocco with Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway.
Joni Jespersen, Mobius/Hemingford Telephone Company Community Enhancement Coordinator, touted, “The foundation has long been a dream to support the many community projects that can benefit from grants but don’t have the structure.
Nielsen, Badura and Seth Jespersen had singles.
A month later, Couturat accidentally put Jespersen in copy of a letter in which he acknowledged that Beaufront was the author of the Ido project.
An international language Novial was first described in Jespersen’s book An International Language (1928).
Couturat, Leau, Beaufront and Jespersen were finally the only members who voted, all of them for Ido's project.
It was updated in his dictionary Novial Lexike in 1930, Jespersen, Otto (1930).
Jespersen rejected a single vowel to terminate all nouns (-o in Esperanto/Ido), finding it unnatural and potentially confusing.
Jespersen suggested that it might be possible instead of the digraph SH to use the phonetic symbol ʃ. For more details, see the Pronunciation Guide of the Novial Wikibook.
Jespersen was angered by this, and asked for a public confession which was never forthcoming.
Language sample for comparison Here is the Lord's Prayer in Novial and several related languages: Criticism As Jespersen relates in his autobiography, in 1934 he proposed an orthographic reform to Novial, which displeased a part of the users.
Novial compared to Esperanto and Ido seeAlso Jespersen was a professional linguist, unlike Esperanto's creator.
Common combinations with jespersen
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- jespersen was 4×
- in jespersen 2×