en

en as a pronoun

en as a number

en as an adverb

en as a noun(en en)

en in a sentence

• en stor skog
  a large forest
• Jag såg en björn i skogen
  I saw a bear in the forest
• det förargar en att höra sådant
  it annoys one to hear that sort of thing
• Det man inte vet skadar en inte
  What one doesn’t know doesn’t hurt one.
• Det en inte vet har en inte ont av.
  What you don't know can't hurt you.
• det hände bara en gång
  it only happened once
• Vill du ha en eller två?
  Would you like one or two?
• vi var väl en 5--6 stycken
  there were about five or six of us
• Vi var väl en femton stycken.
  There were like fifteen of us.

Words built with en

• enbär juniper berry
• enris juniper twigs

Questions

Similar words

någon

Where the course teaches it

• En or ett: Swedish noun gender
  Complete Swedish – Season 1
• Swedish words ending in -itet
  Complete Swedish – Season 1
• Swedish words for now, today, tomorrow
  Complete Swedish – Season 1
• The full set of Swedish possessives
  Complete Swedish – Season 1
• The definite form of Swedish nouns
  Complete Swedish – Season 1
• Swedish object pronouns: honom and henne
  Complete Swedish – Season 1

Origin

From Old Swedish ēn, æn, from Old Norse einn, from Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one, some”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos (“one”).

Nearby common words

en is number 8 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 4du you
• 5att to, that
• 6inte not
• 7ha have, have, possess; be provided with
• 9och and
• 10vi we
• 11på on, in
• 12i in; on, at