våning

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German wāninge.

Noun

våning c (singular definite våningen, plural indefinite våninger)

1. (dated) housing, residential house, apartment

Inflection

Declension of våning

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	våning	våningen	våninger	våningerne
genitive	vånings	våningens	våningers	våningernes

Derived terms

• våninghus

Further reading

• “våning” in Den Danske Ordbog

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German wōnunge, wāninge, from Old Saxon *wonunga, *wununga, from Proto-West Germanic *wunungu. Cognate with English woning, German Wohnung, Dutch woning.

Pronunciation

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Noun

våning c

1. (large) apartment
2. floor, storey / story of a building

Usage notes

Enumeration of the floors in Sweden is usually made by denoting the floor on, or closest to, the entry level (the ground floor) either bottenvåning (literally, bottom floor) or våningen 0 (floor zero), while the next is första våningen (first floor) or 1 tr. (=1 trappa, one flight of stairs), and the one after that andra våningen (second floor) or 2 tr. and so on.

Declension

Declension of våning

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	våning	vånings
	definite	våningen	våningens
plural	indefinite	våningar	våningars
	definite	våningarna	våningarnas

Derived terms

• bottenvåning
• nedervåning
• övervåning

Further reading

• “våning”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)