Noun: gagn
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Nominative
| Sg. Indef. | gagn |
| Sg. Def. | gagnet |
Genitive
| Sg. Indef. | gagns |
| Sg. Def. | gagnets |
Sample Sentences
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vara till gagn för (= gagna) någon (benefit someone)
Nouns inflected like gagn
sexliv,
sattyg,
schtek,
viltkött,
sorbat,
ultraljud,
fläskkött,
skakvåld,
alkoholmissbruk,
grannskap,
beskydd,
rasförräderi,
sommarsolstånd,
futurum,
fastland,
ögonmått,
ögongrus,
arbetsliv,
tuggmotstånd,
griskött, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Norse gagn (“benefit, advantage, use”), from Proto-Germanic *gagną, *gaganą (“gain, profit", literally "return”), from *gagana (“back, against, in return”), a reduplication of *ga- (“with, together”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm (“next to, at, with, along”).
Verbs referencing "gagn"
English Nouns
gain.
Translations