Skitserer

Skitserer is a Danish verb meaning to sketch or to outline, particularly in a rough or preliminary form. It is used for both creating visual sketches and presenting brief outlines of plans, arguments, or descriptions. In art and design, someone may skitserer a composition as a first draft before producing a finished work; in planning or reporting, it can mean outlining key points or proposing an initial version of a proposal.

Grammar and forms: The infinitive is at skitsere. The present tense third-person singular is skitserer, as in “Han skitserer planen.” The past tense is skitserede, and the supine or past participle is skitseret. The noun skitse denotes a sketch, while skitsering refers to the act of sketching or the sketch itself.

Usage notes: Skitserer is common in formal and informal Danish when describing preliminary work. It often implies a staged approach, where a rough outline or draft precedes a final version. The word is closely related to the noun skitse and to similar verbs in related Scandinavian languages, reflecting a shared tradition of outlining and planning in communication.

See also: skitse, skitsering, skitsere.