Svarstidens

Svarstidens is the genitive form of the Swedish noun svarstid, meaning “response time” or “turnaround time.” The term is used in technical, business, and everyday Swedish to discuss the duration between a request and a reply. The base noun svarstid is a compound of svar (“answer”) and tid (“time”); the definite form is svarstiden, the plural svarstider, and the genitive form svarstidens.

In practice, svarstidens appears in phrases such as svarstidens utveckling (the development of response times) or snabbare svarstider (faster response times). It is used when the response time is being attributed to a particular object or process, for example kundtjänstens svarstidens förändringar or svarstidens krav (the requirements of response time). Generally, the simple form svarstid is preferred for the general concept, while svarstidens is used to indicate possession or attribution.

If capitalized as Svarstidens, it may be encountered as a proper noun, such as a fictional place, brand, or title in a specific work; in standard Swedish, however, the lowercase genitive form remains the conventional linguistic form. See also svarstid, response time, service level agreement, and customer service metrics.