höns
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish höns, from Old Norse hœns, hæns (“hens, poultry, fowl”, collectively).
Noun
höns n
- (usually in the plural) chicken, fowl (bird of the genus Gallus, especially Gallus gallus domesticus)
- Vi har höns
- We have chickens
- mata hönsen
- feed the chickens
- springa omkring som yra höns
- run around like headless [dizzy] chickens (idiomatic)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | höns | höns |
| definite | hönset | hönsets | |
| plural | indefinite | höns | höns |
| definite | hönsen | hönsens |
Derived terms
- hönsaktig (“henlike”)
- hönsarv (“starweed”)
- hönsbur (“battery cage”)
- hönsbär (“bunchberry”)
- hönseri (“poultry farm”)
- hönsgård (“chicken run”)
- hönshjärna (“birdbrain”)
- hönshus (“henhouse”)
- hönsminne (“memory like a sieve”)
- hönsnät (“chicken wire”)
- hönssömn (“light sleep; nap”)
- hönsägg (“chicken egg”)
- skogshöns (“grouse”)
- snöhöns (“snowfowl”)