30årige

30årige is a term used in Scandinavian languages to denote a person who is thirty years old. It functions as a compound adjective placed before a noun to describe age, and it can also appear in noun phrases such as en/ett 30-årig or de/den 30-årige depending on the language and grammatical context. The form is most commonly written with a hyphen in standard orthography, for example 30-årig (singular) and 30-årige (plural/definite forms) in Danish and Norwegian, and 30-årig or 30-åriga in Swedish, with slight variations for gender, number, and definiteness.

Linguistic details vary by language. In Danish: en 30-årig mand (a 30-year-old man); de 30-årige kvinder (the 30-year-old women). In Norwegian: en 30-årig mann; de 30-årige menn. In Swedish: en 30-årig man; de 30-åriga män. The form 30årige without the hyphen is less common in formal standard writing, but may appear in casual text or contexts where diacritics or hyphenation are omitted.

Usage and meaning. The term is primarily a demographic and descriptive label rather than a standalone noun. It is widely used in journalism, statistics, marketing, and sociological discourse to discuss age-related trends, life stages, or group-specific behaviors. While it denotes a precise age (thirty), it is often used to speak about a cohort or subset of the population rather than an individual in a neutral sense.

Etymology. The term combines the numeral 30 with år (year) and a adjectival suffix, forming a compound meaning “thirty-year-old.” See also age groups, demographics of Scandinavian countries.