våning

From Middle Low German wāninge.

våning c (singular definite våningen, plural indefinite våninger)

1. (dated) housing, residential house, apartment

• våninghus

• “våning” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Low German wōnunge, wāninge, from Old Saxon *wonunga, *wununga, from Proto-West Germanic *wunungu. Cognate with English woning, German Wohnung.

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våning c

1. (large) apartment
2. floor, storey / story of a building

Enumeration of the floors in Sweden is usually made by denoting the floor on, or closest to, the entry level (the ground floor) either bottenvåning (literally, bottom floor) or våningen 0 (floor zero), while the next is första våningen (first floor) or 1 tr. (=1 trappa, one flight of stairs), and the one after that andra våningen (second floor) or 2 tr. and so on.

• övervåning

• våning in Svensk ordbok.