barn.
a child (person who has not reached adulthood)
Meaning & usage
a child (person who has not reached adulthood)
Både barn och vuxna är välkomna.
a child (son or daughter)
Hon pussade sina barn godnatt.
hans vuxna barn
a child (figurative offspring)
Han är ett barn av sin tid.
pregnant, with child
vara med barn
göra någon med barn
barn (a unit of area in nuclear physics)
Where this word comes from
From Old Swedish barn (“child”), from Old Norse barn (“child”), from Proto-Germanic *barną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-. Cognate with Danish barn, Icelandic barn, Old Saxon barn, Old High German barn, Latvian bērns (“child”), Lithuanian bérnas (“worker”) and bernẽlis (“lad”), a kind of participle to bära (“to bear, to carry, as in childbirth”).
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