Noun: barn
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | barn |
| Sg. Def. | barnet |
| Pl. Indef. | barn |
| Pl. Def. | barnen |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | barns |
| Sg. Def. | barnets |
| Pl. Indef. | barns |
| Pl. Def. | barnens |
Sample Sentences
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Både barn och vuxna är välkomna. (Both children and adults are welcome.)
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Teddybjörnen Fredriksson, ja, så hette han. En gång var han bara min, och vi älskade varann. Teddybjörnen Fredriksson, hans nos den var av garn. Ja, han var min bästa vän när jag var ett litet barn. (Fredriksson the teddy bear, yes, that was his name [so was-named he]. Once [one time] he was just mine, and we loved each other. Fredriksson the teddy bear, his nose [it – redundant] was made of yarn [was of yarn]. Yes, he was my best friend when I was a little child.) [1969, Lasse Berghagen, “Teddybjörnen Fredriksson [Fredriksson the Teddy Bear]”:]
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Hon pussade sina barn godnatt. (She kissed her children good night.)
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hans vuxna barn (his adult children)
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Han är ett barn av sin tid. (He is a child of his times.)
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Genom dopet befrias vi från synden och föds på nytt som Guds barn. (Through baptism, we are freed from sin and reborn as children of God.) [2010, Lars Cavallin, transl., Katolska kyrkans katekes, Catholica, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2025, §1213:]
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– Mina låtar är som mina barn. ("My songs are like my children.") [2021 January 2, TT Nyhetsbyrån, “Fem namn du kommer att höra om 2021”, in Borås Tidning, archived from the original on 26 May 2025:]
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vara med barn (be pregnant)
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göra någon med barn (make someone pregnant)
Nouns inflected like barn
fraktfartyg,
narkotikabeslag,
kombinationsfält,
urinrör,
civilutskott,
urklipp,
rumpknull,
symtom,
synfel,
blogginlägg,
system,
syskon,
bubbelbad,
sexköp,
sekret,
seldon,
urspråk,
samråd,
samtal,
samlag, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-.
2. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bernẽlis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
barn', Danish Nouns '
barn', Icelandic Nouns '
barn', Latvian Nouns '
bērns'.
Verbs referencing "barn"
Latvian Nouns
bērns.
Translations