Udgiverens

Udgiverens is the genitive form of the Danish noun udgiver, meaning publisher. It is used to indicate possession, association, or attribution to a publisher, whether an individual or a publishing company. In Danish, possessives are typically formed with the suffix -s, and in the definite/genitive form this can appear as -ens after the base noun, yielding udgiverens.

The form is common in publishing, legal language, bibliographies, and contract texts, where it is important to attribute content, rights, or obligations to the publisher. For example, udgiverens navn refers to the publisher’s name, and udgiverens rettigheder refers to the publisher’s rights. The construction helps distinguish ownership or responsibility from authors, editors, or other parties.

In practice, udgiverens may be used interchangeably with the more general forlags- terms in some contexts, though udgiver emphasizes the role of the issuer or disseminator of content rather than the publishing house as an institution. For comparing ownership by a publishing entity versus a specific imprint, Danish often uses udgiverens vs. forlagets, depending on whether the focus is on the individual publisher or the publishing company.

See also: Danish grammar, genitive forms, possessive suffixes, udgiver, forlag.