Noun: faen
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
Definite
Sample Sentences
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Stakkars faen, jeg synes synd på deg. (Poor devil, I pity you.)
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Du er en sleip faen. (You’re a cunning devil.)
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Hvordan skal en fattig faen overleve her? (How is a poor bastard supposed to survive here?)
Nouns inflected like faen
åbredsel,
EDB,
deja vu,
flyttefot,
DDMMÅÅÅÅ,
sjøbein,
september,
hviterussisk,
sørsamisk,
new age,
gudslån,
ormehull,
andre juledag,
naturalia,
november,
pytt-i-panne,
oktober,
ddmmåååå,
åå,
dd, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Contraction of fanden (“the Devil”), from late Old Norse fendinn, perhaps from Frisian with the original meaning "the tempter, he who tempts". Compare Old Norse fjándinn (“the enemy”), definite of fjándi (“enemy, foe, devil”). Cognate with Danish fanden, Icelandic fjandi, Faroese fanin and Swedish fan. See also djevel. See: Old Norse Nouns '
fendinn', Old Norse Nouns '
fjándinn', Danish Nouns '
fanden', Icelandic Nouns '
fjandi', Swedish Nouns '
fan'.
Verbs referencing "faen"
Swedish Nouns
fan.
Translations