Swedish noun· top 500 most common

en son

son/soːn/

Meaning

son

In Swedish: manligt barn (till någon)

Forms

Forms of son
Singular, indefinite	en son
Singular, definite	sonen
Plural, indefinite	söner
Plural, definite	sönerna

son is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor son, den stora sonen. Check another noun

Practise son

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Is it en son or ett son?

son in a sentence

han är son till vicevärden
he is a son of the caretaker
min egen son
my own son

Words built with son

sonson grandson
dotterson grandson
sondotter granddaughter

Questions

What does son mean in English?

son means “son”.

Is it en son or ett son?

It is en son, and “the son” is sonen.

What is the plural of son?

The plural of son is söner, and the definite plural is sönerna.

Where the course teaches it

Swedish vocabulary for family members
Complete Swedish – Season 2

Origin

From Old Swedish son, sun, from Old Norse sonr, sunr from Proto-Germanic *sunuz, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Nearby common words

son is number 284 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

280fått got
281sedan since; from a given point in time
282snart soon; shortly, before long
283använda use, employ
285vilja want
286sitt his, her
287kör choir
288varje every

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