skön

See also: skon, skoen, and skøn

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɧøːn/
• Rhymes: -øːn

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Etymology 1

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.

Adjective

skön (comparative skönare, superlative skönast)

1. (dated, poetic) fair, beautiful

   Synonym: vacker

   en skön mö

   a fair maiden

   Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som skönast i landet är?

   Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?

   (literally, “Mirror, mirror on that wall, tell me: who in the land is the fairest?”)

2. comfortable, pleasurable

   Synonyms: angenäm, mysig

   Soffan är skön att sitta i

   The sofa is comfortable to sit in

   Det är/känns så skönt när du masserar mig

   It feels so nice when you give me a massage

3. (slang) easy-going, cool, funny (charming, usually in a laid-back way)

   en skön snubbe

   a cool, easy-going guy

Declension

Inflection of skön
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	skön	skönare	skönast
Neuter singular	skönt	skönare	skönast
Plural	sköna	skönare	skönast
Masculine plural3	sköne	skönare	skönast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	sköne	skönare	skönaste
All	sköna	skönare	skönaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Antonyms

• oskön

Derived terms

• försköna
• naturskön
• skönhet
• sköning
• skönlitteratur
• störtskön
• underskön

 

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish skyn, from Old Norse skyn. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

skön n (uncountable)

1. liking, preference, arbitration

   Synonym: gottfinnande

   efter eget skön ― according to one's own preference

Declension

Declension of skön

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	skön	sköns
	definite	skönet	skönets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Derived terms

• skönja
• skönlig
• skönsam
• skönsmån
• skönsmässig
• skönstaxering
• skönsvärde

 

References

• skön in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• skön in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• skön in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• skön in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• köns