Noun: ö
Hyphenation:
Gender: Common gender
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | ö |
| Sg. Def. | ön |
| Pl. Indef. | öar |
| Pl. Def. | öarna |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | ös |
| Sg. Def. | öns |
| Pl. Indef. | öars |
| Pl. Def. | öarnas |
Sample Sentences
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Gotland är den största ön i Östersjön. (Gotland is the largest island in the Baltic Sea.)
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gå i land på en ö (go ashore on an island)
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Då vilar min blommande ö vid din barm, du dunkelblå, vindstilla fjärd. Och julinattsskymningen smyger sig varm till sovande buskar och träd. Min älva, du dansar så lyssnande tyst och tänker att karlar är troll. Den skälver, din barnsliga hand som jag kysst, och valsen förklingar i moll. (Then my blossoming island rests [then rests my blossoming island] on your bosom, you dark blue, still ["windstill," currently windless] archipelago / bay. And the dusk of the July night sneaks, warm, to sleeping bushes and trees. My fairy [or "elf," but with different connotations], you dance so quietly, listening ["listeningly quiet"], and think to yourself [to avoid the ambiguity of just "think" here in English] that men are trolls. It trembles, your childish hand that I have kissed, and the waltz fades away in minor [key].) [1932, Evert Taube, “Calle Schewens vals [Calle Schewen's Waltz]”:]
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They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; [1943 [1851], Herman Melville, translated by Hugo Hultenberg, Moby Dick eller Den vita valen, translation of Moby-Dick:]
Nouns inflected like ö
sameby,
bergsjö,
dammsky,
saltsjö,
kratersjö,
järnvägsbro,
gångbro,
semesterö,
klaffbro,
hemmafru,
skärgårdsö,
å,
ö,
oͤ,
lo,
mo,
olympiaby,
halvö,
insjö,
köksö, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish ø, from Old Norse ey, from Proto-Germanic *awjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water”). Cognate with Swedish å (“stream”), English ey (and the initial syllable in island). See: Old Norse Nouns '
ey', Swedish Nouns '
å', English Nouns '
ey'.
Verbs referencing "ö"
English Nouns
island, English Nouns
oe, Old English Nouns
ieg, German Nouns
Aue.
Translations