Hyppig

Hyppig is an adjective used in Danish and Norwegian to describe something that occurs often or with high frequency. It signals that events, conditions, or characteristics recur regularly rather than being rare. The term is common in everyday language as well as in medical, statistical, and research contexts to characterize frequency. In translation, hyppig corresponds to the English word frequent or common.

In both Danish and Norwegian, hyppig agrees with the noun in number and gender, and it can appear in attributive position before the noun (hyppig forekomst, hyppige forekomster) or predicatively (forekomsten var hyppig). The word helps distinguish regular or repeated occurrences from incidental or rare events. It is frequently used when discussing health symptoms, weather patterns, consumer behavior, or data analyses.

Related noun forms exist in both languages to express the concept of frequency. The corresponding nouns are hyppighed in Danish and hyppighet in Norwegian, used to refer to the overall rate or level of repetition. In English contexts, hyppig is often rendered as frequent or common, while hyppighet/hyppighet may be translated as frequency or prevalence, depending on the sentence.

See also: frequency, recurrence, epidemiology, statistics.