våning

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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

Further reading

Swedish

Etymology

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

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

See also

Further reading

Wikious
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