ingen

From Old Norse engi, enginn, from einn (“one”) +‎ -gi (“not”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈenɡən/, [ˈeŋŋ̍]

ingen (neuter intet, plural ingen)

1. (determiner) no

   Jeg har ingen penge.

   I have no money.

2. (pronoun) no one, nobody, nothing, neither, none

   Ingen har set ham siden i morges.

   No one has seen him since this morning.

• nogen

ing +‎ -en

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋɡɛn]
• Hyphenation: in‧gen

ingen

1. superessive singular of ing

From Old Norse engi, enginn.

ingen (feminine inga, masculine ingen, neuter intet, plural ingen)

1. no; no one; nobody; nothing
2. neither
3. none

ingen

1. no; not any

• ingenmannsland
• ingen nyheter er gode nyheter

• “ingen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Middle Norwegian eingin, from Old Norse enginn, a newer form of engi. Cognate with Faroese eingin, Icelandic enginn, Swedish ingen and Danish ingen.

• IPA^(key): /²ɪŋːɛn/

ingen (masculine ingen, feminine inga, neuter inkje, plural ingen)

1. no

ingen (masculine ingen, feminine inga, neuter inkje, plural ingen)

1. no one; nobody
2. neither
3. none

• ingenmannsland
• ingenting

• “ingen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ginen

From Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *enigenā (literally “born within, indigenous”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, beget”); compare Latin indigena (“native”) and Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈinʲɣʲen]

ingen f (genitive ingine)

2. daughter
3. maiden, virgin, young woman

• ingenacht
• ingenrad

• Middle Irish: ingen
  • Irish: iníon, inghean (superseded), inghin, inín (Connacht), nighean, níon (Ulster), inín
  • Manx: inneen
  • Scottish Gaelic: nighean, nigheann, inghean
• ⇒ Middle Irish: ingenach
• ⇒ Middle Irish: ingenas
  • Irish: iníonas

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ingen (‘daughter’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 24, page 18; reprinted 2017

From Proto-Celtic *angʷīnā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nṓgʰs.

Cognate with Welsh ewin, Breton ivin; and with Latin unguis, English nail, Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux), Russian но́готь (nógotʹ), Sanskrit नख (nakhá).

• IPA^(key): [ˈiŋʲɡʲen]

ingen f (genitive ingne)

2. nail (fingernail, toenail)

• Middle Irish: inga (reinterpreted as an n-stem)
  • Irish: ionga
  • Manx: ingin
  • Scottish Gaelic: ionga

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ingen (‘nail’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 24, page 18; reprinted 2017

From Old Swedish ængin, from Old Norse engi, enginn, from einn (“one”) + -gi (privative suffix).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋˌɛn/, [ˈɪŋːˌɛ̂n]

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ingen (neuter inget, plural inga)

1. no

   Jag har ingen bil

   I have no car

   Vi har ingen mjölk hemma

   We have no milk at home

   Jag har inga cigaretter

   I have no cigarettes

   Inget träd kan leva av vatten allena

   No tree can live on water alone

   1. none (when the referent is implied, which is often idiomatic in Swedish, similar to after "any" in English in the example)

      – Ge mig en cigarett. – Jag har inga ["cigaretter" implied].

      – Give me a cigarette. – I don't have any ["cigarettes" implied – "I have no/none"].

ingen (neuter inget, plural inga)

1. none

   Ingen av burkarna innehöll cola

   None of the cans contained cola

   Inget av detta är en slump

   None of this is a coincidence

   För musiken står inga mindre än Rolling Stones

   The music is provided by ("for the music stands") none other than ("none lesser than" – idiomatic) the Rolling Stones

   1. (almost always common gender) no one, nobody

      Ingen har någonsin sprungit 100 meter på under nio sekunder!

      No one has ever run 100 meters faster than nine seconds!

2. (in the neuter inget) synonym of ingenting (“nothing”)
   • 1994, Lisa Ekdahl, “Vem vet [Who knows]”, in Lisa Ekdahl‎^[1]:

     Vem vet? Inte du. Vem vet? Inte jag. Vi vet ingenting nu. Vi vet inget idag.

     Who knows? Not you. Who knows? Not I. We know nothing now. We know nothing today.

See the usage notes for inget.

• ingen alls
• ingendera
• inget

• ingen in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ingen in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ingen in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)