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fönster

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Swedish fynster, finster, from Middle Low German vinster, from Latin fenestra. Replaced Native Old Swedish vindögha, from Old Norse vindauga.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /¹fœnstɛr/
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Noun

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fönster n

  1. a window
    Synonym: (archaic) vindöga
    • 1895, Hjalmar Söderberg, Förvillelser [Delusions]‎[1], Albert Bonniers förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 4 October 2025:
      ...eller när jag såg ut genom fönstret och du gick förbi.
      ...or when I looked out the window, and you walked by.
    • 2000, 1973 års bibelkommission, “Joel 2:9”, in Bibel 2000‎[2], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 4 October 2025:
      [De] tränger in i husen, tar sig in genom fönstren som tjuvar.
      They break into the houses, enter through the windows like thieves.

Declension

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Declension of fönster
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fönster fönsters
definite fönstret fönstrets
plural indefinite fönster fönsters
definite fönstren fönstrens
Declension of fönster (colloquial or dialectal)
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fönster fönsters
definite fönstret fönstrets
plural indefinite fönster fönsters
definite fönsterna, fönstrena fönsternas, fönstrenas

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  • “fönster”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
  • fönster in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
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