skön
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish skön, from Middle Low German schö̂ne, from Old Saxon skōni, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful, shining”). Compare German schön, English sheen.
Pronunciation
Adjective
skön (comparative skönare, superlative skönast)
- beautiful, fair
- Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som skönast i landet är?
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all?
- Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som skönast i landet är?
- comfortable (providing comfort and ease; agreeable)
Declension
| Inflection of skön | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | skön | skönare | skönast |
| Neuter singular | skönt | skönare | skönast |
| Plural | sköna | skönare | skönast |
| Masculine plural3 | sköne | skönare | skönast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | sköne | skönare | skönaste |
| All | sköna | skönare | skönaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Related terms
Noun
skön n
- liking, preference, arbitration
- efter eget skön
- according to one's own preference
- efter eget skön
Declension
| Declension of skön | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uncountable | ||||
| Indefinite | Definite | |||
| Nominative | skön | skönet | — | — |
| Genitive | sköns | skönets | — | — |