svin

See also: svín

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse svín, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *sū-.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sviːn/, [sʋiːˀn̩]

Noun

svin n (singular definite svinet, plural indefinite svin)

  1. hog, pig, swine

Inflection
Declension of svin
neuter
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative svin svinet svin svinene
genitive svins svinets svins svinenes

Synonyms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse svín, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *sū-.

Noun

svin n (definite singular svinet, indefinite plural svin, definite plural svina or svinene)

  1. hog, pig, swine
  2. beast (figuratively)

Synonyms

Hyponyms
  • hanngris
  • hunngris
  • hannsvin
  • hunnsvin

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse svín

Noun

svin n (definite singular svinet, indefinite plural svin, definite plural svina)

  1. pig, hog, swine (member of family Suidae)

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse svín, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *sū-.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

svin n

  1. hog, pig, swine

Declension
Declension of svin 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative svin svinet svin svinen
Genitive svins svinets svins svinens

Synonyms

Volapük

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [svin]

Noun

svin (plural svins)

  1. (male or female) hog, pig, swine

Declension
declension of svin
singular plural
nominative svin svins
genitive svina svinas
dative svine svines
accusative svini svinis
vocative 1 o svin! o svins!
predicative 2 svinu svinus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Hypernyms

Hyponyms
  • domasvin
  • hisvin
  • hosvin
  • jisvin
  • josvin
  • svinül

Derived terms

See also
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