Nominaliserade

Nominaliserade is a Swedish term for forms or constructions that have undergone nominalization, turning verbs or adjectives into nouns. In linguistics, nominalization is the process of forming a noun or noun phrase from another word class, most commonly from verbs and adjectives. The result can be a noun that denotes an action, a state, or a property.

Common nominalizations in Swedish are formed with suffixes such as -ning, -ande, -het, -else and -skap, among others. Examples include läsning (reading) from läsa, skrivning (writing) from skriva, tänkande (thinking) from tänka, snabbhet (speed) from snabb, and händelse (event) from hända. These forms behave as nouns: they can be subjects or objects, modify by adjectives, take determiners, and appear in singular and plural forms (läsning, läsningar; läsningen).

Nominalized verb phrases can also be created without explicit suffixes, especially in the spoken language, by using gerund-like forms such as skrivande and tänkande. In formal Swedish, nominalizations are frequent in academic and administrative prose because they allow compact expressions of actions or processes, as in "genom förenklad uppföljning" or "användningen av tekniken."

Nominaliserade phrases can be ambiguous: they may refer to the action itself or to the result of the action, and their placement affects emphasis. Some guidance suggests balancing nominalizations with verb-based constructions to preserve clarity.