Legemidlets

Legemidlets is the genitive form of legemiddel in Danish and Norwegian, used to indicate possession or association with a drug or medicinal product. In English terms, it corresponds to the phrase “the medicine’s” or “of the medicine.” It is a grammatical inflection rather than a separate lexical item, and it appears in medical, pharmacological, and regulatory texts where a specific drug is being described.

In usage, legemidlets is formed by adding -s to the singular noun legemiddel. The form is used with a following noun to express ownership or attribution, as in legemidlets virkning (the drug’s effect) or legemidlets bivirkninger (the drug’s side effects). It is common in patient information leaflets, scholarly articles, labeling, and pharmacovigilance documentation to attribute properties, outcomes, or safety information to a particular medicine.

The concept is language-specific to Danish and Norwegian; other Scandinavian languages use different possessive constructions (for example Swedish uses läkemedlets). For learners and readers, the key point is that legemidlets marks a possessive relation to the medicine and does not change the underlying meaning of the base noun legemiddel. When expanding to plural or more complex phrases, the surrounding inflection and definite forms of the noun will determine how the possessive phrase is constructed in full sentence syntax.