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Industriellem

Industriellem is a Danish term that appears primarily as a historical or nonstandard inflected form of the adjective industriel, meaning related to industry. In contemporary Danish, the common adjectives are industriel and the neuter or adverbial form industrielt; industriellem is not part of standard modern usage and is rarely seen outside older texts, regional dialects, or highly formal or archaic writings.

Etymology and background: The word is derived from the same French root that underpins the Danish adjective

Usage and context: Because industriellem is largely obsolete in standard Danish, it is mostly encountered in

See also: industriel, industrielt, Danish grammar, historical Danish orthography.

Note: If you encounter industriellem in a text, it is advisable to consider it part of an

industriel.
While
industriel
is
the
everyday
form
used
to
describe
things
connected
with
industry,
and
industrielt
can
function
as
the
neuter
form
before
nouns
or
as
an
adverb,
industriellem
represents
an
older
or
irregular
inflection
that
has
largely
fallen
out
of
general
use.
historical
documents,
philological
discussions,
or
in
analyses
of
older
literary
styles.
Modern
Danish
would
typically
replace
it
with
industriel
or
industrielt
depending
on
gender,
number,
and
sentence
structure.
When
seeking
a
contemporary
equivalent
to
express
“in
an
industrial
manner”
or
“industrial,”
speakers
would
normally
use
industrielt
as
an
adverb.
archaic
or
nonstandard
form,
and
to
interpret
its
meaning
through
the
common
modern
equivalents
rather
than
assuming
it
carries
a
distinct
semantic
value
in
current
usage.