Afdødes

Afdødes is a Danish noun form used to indicate possession or association with a deceased person. The base noun "afdøde" means a person who has died, i.e., the deceased. The form "afdødes" functions as the genitive (possessive) singular, corresponding to “the deceased’s” in English, and it appears in contexts such as legal documents, probate records, and formal notices.

In practice, "afdødes" is used to denote property, rights, or matters belonging to the deceased, for example in phrases like "afdødes bo" (the deceased’s estate) or "afdødes ejendom" (the deceased’s property). In everyday language, however, people more commonly refer to the deceased directly as "afdøde" rather than using the possessive form, which can feel formal or clinical.

The term is often encountered in obituaries, wills, inheritance discussions, and cemetery or archival records. It should be distinguished from "afdøde" (the deceased) itself; the former is a grammatical form used to express possession, while the latter is the noun referring to the person who has died.

See also: Danish grammar and possessive suffix -s; related terms such as afdøde (the deceased), dødsfall (death), arveret (inheritance law), and begravelse (funeral).