ingen

ingen as a determiner

ingen in a sentence

• Det finns ingen mjölk kvar.
  There's no milk left.
• Ingen vet.
  Nobody knows.
• Tack! – Ingen orsak.
  Thanks! – Don't mention it.
• ingen av oss
  none of us
• jag har inga pengar
  I have no money
• vi har inget att göra
  we have nothing to do
• Ingen av burkarna innehöll cola
  None of the cans contained cola
• Inget av detta är en slump
  None of this is a coincidence
• För musiken står inga mindre än Rolling Stones
  The music is provided by ("for the music stands") none other than ("none lesser than" – idiomatic) the Rolling Stones
• Ingen har någonsin sprungit 100 meter på under nio sekunder!
  No one has ever run 100 meters faster than nine seconds!

Questions

Where the course teaches it

• Swedish word order when an adverb comes first
  Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

From Old Swedish ængin, from Old Norse engi, enginn, from einn (“one”) + -gi (privative suffix).

Nearby common words

ingen is number 75 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

• 71alla everyone, all, everybody, everyone
• 72upp up (similar senses to English, though compare uppe), open (to an open position or state)
• 73gå go, walk
• 74allt all 1, everything, all
• 76tack thanks, thank you, please (to add politeness)
• 77få get, receive
• 78sa said
• 79in into