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fön

See also: Fön and Appendix:Variations of "fon"

Bavarian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German vælen, velen, valen, from Old French faillir, from Latin fallō. Cognate with German fehlen, English fail.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfœːn/
  • Hyphenation: fön

Verb

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fön (past participle gföd) (East Central Bavarian, Vienna)

  1. (with dative) to be absent from, to be missing from, to be lacking in
    I dadad's kaufn, owa mia föd s'Göd. ― I would buy it but I don't have the money.
  2. (with dative) to be missed by
    De Freind fön eam, seid er wegazogn is. ― He's been missing his friends since he moved.
  3. (with dative) to feel ill, to feel unwell
    Föd da wås? - Naa, mir föd nix, dånk da! ― Do you feel unwell? - No, I'm fine, thanks!
    Wås föd ihr denn ? ― What's wrong with her?
  4. (intransitive) to be missing
    Då föd a Schraufn. ― A screw is missing.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of fön
infinitive fön
past participle gföd
present past subjunctive
1st person singular fö — fölad
2nd person singular föst — fölast
3rd person singular föd — fölad
1st person plural fön — föladn
2nd person plural föds — fölats
3rd person plural fön — föladn
imperative
singular fö
plural föds

German

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Verb

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fön

  1. singular imperative of fönen
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of fönen

Icelandic

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Noun

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fön f (genitive singular fanar, nominative plural fanir)

  1. (ornithology) barb (one of the side branches of a feather which collectively constitute the vane)
  2. (ichthyology, mycology) lamella (thin, plate-like structure forming part of a gill)

Declension

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Declension of fön (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fön fönin fanir fanirnar
accusative fön fönina fanir fanirnar
dative fön föninni fönum fönunum
genitive fanar fanarinnar fana fananna

Slovak

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Noun

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fön m inan

  1. foehn
  2. hairdryer
    Synonym: sušič

Declension

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Declension of fön
(pattern dub)
singularplural
nominativefönföny
genitivefönufönov
dativefönufönom
accusativefönföny
locativefönefönoch
instrumentalfönomfönmi

Further reading

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  • “fön”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish

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Etymology

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From German Föhn.

Noun

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fön c

  1. strong, hot wind in mountainous regions
  2. hair dryer

Declension

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Declension of fön
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fön föns
definite fönen fönens
plural indefinite fönar fönars
definite fönarna fönarnas

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • → Finnish: fööni

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Turkish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Föhn, from Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin *faōnius, from Latin Favōnius (“Favonius”), a Roman wind god.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fœn/ [ˈɸø̞ᵝn̟]

Noun

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fön (definite accusative fönü, plural fönler)

  1. blow dryer
  2. (meteorology) foehn

Volapük

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Noun

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fön (nominative plural föns)

  1. furnace, oven

Declension

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Declension of fön
singular plural
nominative fön föns
genitive föna fönas
dative föne fönes
accusative föni fönis
vocative 1 o fön! o föns!
predicative 2 fönu fönus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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