Tilgås

Tilgås is a present passive form of the Danish and Norwegian verb tilgå, used in formal, administrative, and legal language. The basic sense of tilgå is that something is accorded, granted, or comes to someone, or that a matter is directed toward a recipient. In its passive form tilgås, the phrase indicates that a right, benefit, obligation, or resource is conferred upon a person or group, or that a matter is allocated to them.

In usage, tilgås appears primarily in official texts, statutes, contracts, and government communications. It conveys a sense of entitlement or allocation, rather than a mere action performed by the subject. For example, a sentence might express that a certain right tilgås citizens, or that funding tilgår a municipal body. The exact expression can vary by dialect and context, and other verbs such as tildeles (to allocate) or tilhører (to belong to) may be used as synonyms in different sentences.

Synonyms and related terms include tildeles, tilhører, and tilhørsforhold, which cover similar ideas of allocation, entitlement, or belonging. Grammatical forms of tilgå include tilgår (present active), tilgik (past), and tilgået (supine/participial form), with tilgås serving as the passive present form.

Etymologically, tilgå comes from older Scandinavian roots combining elements meaning “to go” or “to come to,” evolving into a meaning related to adjunction, availability, or entitlement in legal and administrative language.

See also: tilhøre, tildeles, tilhørsforhold.