mången

See also: mangen and mang en

Swedish

From Old Swedish manger, margher, marghin, from Old Norse mangr, margr, from Proto-Germanic *managaz.

mången c, månget n, mångt n, många pl

(singular only, dated, poetic) many a
- 1848, Johan Ludvig Runeberg, “Fänrik Stål”, in Fänrik Ståls sägner, volume I, page 5:
  […] Mig vinkar från förflutna år / så mången vänlig stjärna. […]
  […] To me waves from years past / so many a kind star. […]
(plural only) many, many people
- Många vill ha senap på korven.
  Many want mustard on their hot dog.

This pronoun is also used as an adjective and noun.
The singular of this pronoun takes the meaning "many a". It's rarely used in casual speech, except when trying to sound old-timey, and so is dated.
Swedish dictionaries SAOB and SAOL do not connect this pronoun mången, månget, många (“many”) to the adjectives fler (“more”) and flest (“most”), even though most (non-linguist) native speakers of Swedish consider them as forms of the same adjective.

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