känning

See also: kanning

Swedish

Etymology

känna (“feel, know”) +‎ -ing

Noun

känning c

  1. a sensation (stemming from something)
    Hon har fått känningar av sin gamla knäskada
    Her old knee injury has flared up
    vårkänningar
    experience/premonition of spring
  2. closeness bordering on contact (often with something more-or-less abstract – in the compound grundkänning of actual, light contact)
    målkänning
    getting close to scoring a goal
  3. (colloquial) an acquaintance (person one knows)

Declension
Declension of känning 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative känning känningen känningar känningarna
Genitive kännings känningens känningars känningarnas

References
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