gröna

Gröna is a Swedish adjective meaning green. It is used to describe the color of objects, vegetation, food, and other nouns, and it can also appear in set phrases related to nature and the environment. In the plural, the indefinite form is gröna, and this same form is used for definite plural nouns when the noun is preceded by a determiner, as in de gröna bilarna.

Grammatical inflection follows standard Swedish adjective patterns. In singular form, it inflects for gender: en grön bil (a green car) and ett grönt hus (a green house). In plural, regardless of definiteness, the form is gröna: gröna bilar (green cars) and de gröna bilarna (the green cars). Predicative use after a linking verb also respects number and gender: Bilen är grön (the car is green); Husen är gröna (the houses are green). The comparative and superlative forms are grönare and grönast, respectively.

Etymology traces gröna back to the Old Norse word grænn and related Germanic forms. It is cognate with Danish grøn and Norwegian grønn, and it ultimately derives from Proto-Germanic roots associated with the color green.

See also: the broader family of color terms in Swedish, including grön for the base adjective and related compounds describing shades and vegetation. Gröna is a common and versatile word in everyday Swedish, used across spoken and written language to denote the color green in both concrete and figurative contexts.