Adjective: skön
Hyphenation:
Definite Forms
Singular Masculine
sköne
All Other Forms
sköna
Comparison Forms
Comparative
| Indefinite | skönare |
| Definite | skönare |
Superlative
| Indefinite | skönast |
| Definite | skönaste |
Perifrastic Comparison Forms
Sample Sentences
-
en skön mö (a fair maiden)
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Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som skönast i landet är? (Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?)
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Soffan är skön att sitta i (The sofa is comfortable to sit in)
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Det är/känns så skönt när du masserar mig (It feels so nice when you give me a massage)
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en skön snubbe (a cool, easy-going guy)
Adjectives inflected like skön
ordfattig,
sjövärdig,
syndig,
synlig,
urmodig,
syrlig,
snövit,
snörik,
snårig,
snäsig,
seriös,
sedlig,
snuvig,
snusig,
snipig,
snorig,
saftig,
sandig,
saklig,
definitiv, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old Swedish skön, from Middle Low German schö̂ne, from Old Saxon skōni, from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful, shining”), related to *skuþōną, which yielded skåda (“to watch, to behold”). Compare German schön, English sheen, Danish skøn. See: German Adjectives '
schön', English Adjectives '
sheen'.
Verbs referencing "skön"
Finnish Adjectives
kaunis, English Adjectives
sheen.
Translations