Lokalere

Lokalere is a term that may be encountered in Scandinavian linguistic contexts as the comparative form of the adjective lokal, meaning local. Its use is not uniform across languages or registers. In contemporary standard Norwegian and Danish, speakers typically express the idea of “more local” with periphrastic forms such as mer lokal in Norwegian or mere lokal in Danish. As a result, lokalere tends to appear mainly in dialectal speech, older writings, or as a theoretical form discussed in grammars, rather than in everyday, standard usage.

Because of its limited status in standard language, examples of lokalere are rarely found in modern Norwegian or Danish corpora. When encountered, the form is usually described as archaic, regional, or context-dependent, rather than as a pronouncable, widely accepted comparative. The preference in practice is to use the adverbial or periphrastic construction with mer/mere.

Etymology and related forms: The base is lokal, derived from the Latin localis via historical pathways into the Germanic languages. In the Scandinavian languages, the comparative suffix -ere is less common for this adjective than the periphrastic mer/mere construction. The form lokalere should not be confused with lokaler or lokale, which are nouns meaning rooms or premises in Danish and Norwegian, or with the base adjective lokal used in standard contexts. See also local, lokal, mer lokal, mere lokal.

See also: lokal, mer lokal, mere lokal, lokaler, lokale.