skön

See also: skon, skoen, and skøn

SwedishEdit

skön (comparative skönare, superlative skönast)

beautiful, fair
Spegel, spegel på väggen där, säg vem som skönast i landet är?
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?
(literally, “Mirror, mirror on that wall, tell me: who in the land is the fairest?”)

Synonym: vacker
comfortable (providing comfort and ease; agreeable)
Synonyms: angenäm, mysig
(slang) easy-going, cool, funny (charming, usually in a laid-back way)
en skön snubbe
a cool, easy-going guy

Inflection of skön
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	skön	skönare	skönast
Neuter singular	skönt	skönare	skönast
Plural	sköna	skönare	skönast
Masculine plural³	sköne	skönare	skönast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	sköne	skönare	skönaste
All	sköna	skönare	skönaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

From Old Swedish skyn, from Old Norse skyn. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

skön n (uncountable)

liking, preference, arbitration
efter eget skön ― according to one's own preference

Synonym: gottfinnande