Swedish adjective· top 5,000 most common

fången

prisoner, inprisoned, captive, captured, imprisoned, capturedAlso the past participle of få and the definite form of fånge.

Meaning

prisoner; inprisoned; captive, captured, imprisoned; captured; fancy; surrounded; trapped; captured, received, gotten

Forms

Forms of fången
Basic form	fången	with en-words
Neuter	fånget	with ett-words
Plural and definite	fångna	plural nouns, and after den / det / de

Practise fången

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What does fången mean?

fången in a sentence

Han hölls fången i ett litet rum
He was held captive in a small room
Lätt fånget, lätt förgånget
Easy come, easy go (idiomatic, not grammatically obvious to native speakers, who'd use fångat)

Questions

What does fången mean in English?

fången means “prisoner, inprisoned”.

Nearby common words

fången is number 2,769 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

2,765tjata pester, nag
2,766extremt extreme, extremely (to an extreme degree)
2,767runda round
2,768ammunition ammunition
2,770utbyte exchange, benefit
2,771riddare knight
2,772pang bang
2,773stått stood

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Sources: Folkets lexikon (CC BY-SA 2.5) and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), edited by Lingolib. Browse the dictionary