sägen – Swedish noun declension

Swedish noun forms of sägen

Noun: sägen
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender

Nominative

Sg. Indef.sägen
Sg. Def.sägnen
Pl. Indef.sägner
Pl. Def.sägnerna

Genitive

Sg. Indef.sägens
Sg. Def.sägnens
Pl. Indef.sägners
Pl. Def.sägnernas

Sample Sentences

  • Det finns en sägen om den gamla eken (There is a legend about the old oak tree)
  • Fänrik Ståls sägner (The Tales of Ensign Stål (an epic poem))

Nouns inflected like sägen

vandringssägen, sägen, hörsägen,

Etymology

From Old Swedish sæghn, saghn, from Old Norse sǫgn, from Proto-Germanic *sagnō, cognate with Danish sagn, Old English sæġen (“saying, statement”). Derived from *sagjaną (“to say”). See: Old Norse Nouns 'sǫgn', Danish Nouns 'sagn', Old English Nouns 'sæġen'.

Verbs referencing "sägen"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns segn, Danish Nouns sagn.

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