Forløpets

Forløpets is a Norwegian inflected form of the noun forløp, commonly used to express possession or association. Forløp denotes a course, progression, development or sequence of events, and forløpets is the genitive (or possessive) form, typically translated into English as "the course's" or "of the course."

The form is created by adding the -s genitive marker to the base noun; it appears in both Bokmål and Nynorsk contexts where genitive construction is required. It is used across registers and fields, including medicine (forløpets varighet — the duration of the clinical course), literature and history (forløpets utvikling — the development of the narrative or events), and everyday descriptions of processes or sequences.

Syntactically, forløpets commonly functions as a dependent modifier preceding another noun, forming phrases that indicate that something belongs to or characterizes the course or progression in question. Alternative constructions may use prepositional phrases with av (av forløpet) to express similar meaning, especially in more formal or analytic styles.

Related words include the indefinite and definite forms forløp and forløpet, and cognates in other Scandinavian languages (e.g., Swedish förlopp) that convey comparable senses of sequence and development.