hän

hän in a sentence

• Han gick hän
  He walked away/hence (also a euphemism for died)
• Vi åkte hän till Säffle
  We went away/hence to Säffle (redundant, somewhat poetic or jocular)
• Hän mot nya mål!
  Away towards new goals!
• Vart gick han hän?
  Where did he go [to]?

Expressions

• vart skall du hän?
  where are you going?

Questions

Origin

From Old Norse héðan, with influence from Middle Low German hen (“away”), both ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this”).

Nearby common words

hän is number 5,981 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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• 5,983tittare viewer
• 5,984lockbete a bait, a lure, a decoy (something used to attract, often under false pretenses)
• 5,985vykort postcard, in particular with an image on the front side