skön

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See also: skon, skoen, and skøn

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɧøːn/
  • Rhymes: -øːn
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Etymology 1

From Old Swedish skön, from Middle Low German schö̂ne, from Old Saxon skōni, from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful, shining”), related to *skuþōną, which yielded skåda (“to watch, to behold”). Compare German schön, English sheen, Danish skøn.

Adjective

skön (comparative skönare, superlative skönast)

  1. (dated, poetic) fair, beautiful
    Synonym: vacker
    en skön mö
    a fair maiden
    Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som skönast i landet är?
    Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?
    (literally, “Mirror, mirror on that wall, tell me: who in the land is the fairest?”)
  2. comfortable, pleasurable
    Synonyms: angenäm, mysig
    Soffan är skön att sitta i
    The sofa is comfortable to sit in
    Det är/känns så skönt när du masserar mig
    It feels so nice when you give me a massage
  3. (slang) easy-going, cool, funny (charming, usually in a laid-back way)
    en skön snubbe
    a cool, easy-going guy
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
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Etymology 2

From Old Swedish skyn, from Old Norse skyn. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

skön n (uncountable)

  1. liking, preference, arbitration
    Synonym: gottfinnande
    efter eget skön ― according to one's own preference
Declension
Declension of skön 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative skön skönet — —
Genitive sköns skönets — —
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