Kulturmässiga

Kulturmässiga is a Swedish adjective form meaning relating to culture or having cultural characteristics. It is derived from kultur (culture) and the suffix -mässig, which produces adjectives that indicate a quality or relation, similar to the English “cultural.” The base form is kulturmässig; when modifying plural nouns or in certain syntactic positions, the form kulturmässiga is used (for example, kulturmässiga uttryck or kulturmässiga traditioner). The adverbial form is kulturmässigt, meaning “in a cultural way.”

The term is used across various registers, from academic discussion to journalism, to describe objects, practices, values, or contexts that pertain to culture. It can emphasize the cultural nature of phenomena such as art, heritage, media, or social norms, as in kulturmässig påverkan (cultural impact) or kulturmässig kontext (cultural context). In everyday Swedish, synonyms like kulturell are common, and kulturell is often preferred for general use, while kulturmässig may foreground the cultural aspect more distinctly in certain analyses or descriptions.

Notes on usage: kulturmässig is typically employed when the author wants to highlight a cultural dimension rather than a strictly material or institutional one. As with many compound adjectives, the exact form—kulturmässig, kulturmässiga, kulturmässigt—depends on the noun’s gender, number, and the syntactic position it holds.