From Middle Low German wāninge.
våning c (singular definite våningen, plural indefinite våninger)
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nominative | våning | våningen | våninger | våningerne |
genitive | vånings | våningens | våningers | våningernes |
From Middle Low German wōnunge, wāninge, from Old Saxon *wonunga, *wununga, from Proto-West Germanic *wunungu. Cognate with English woning, German Wohnung.
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våning c
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.
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Nominative | våning | våningen | våningar | våningarna |
Genitive | vånings | våningens | våningars | våningarnas |