Verlaufs

Verlaufs is the genitive singular form of the German noun Verlauf. Verlauf means the course, progression, or development of something over time. The term is widely used in medical, scientific, and everyday language to describe how events unfold, how a process evolves, or the trajectory of a phenomenon. The form Verlaufs appears in phrases that require the genitive case, such as die Änderung des Verlaufs or des Verlaufs der Krankheit. It is not commonly used as an independent lemma in dictionaries; instead, it functions as an inflected form of Verlauf within sentences.

Common uses include Krankheitsverlauf (the course of a disease), Zeitverlauf (time course), and Verlaufskurve (time-course curve) as well as Verlauf des Projekts. The plural Verläufe denotes multiple courses or progressions, for example, verschiedene Verläufe der Krankheit wurden beobachtet. Composite terms expand on the base sense, such as Krankheitsverlauf, Verlaufsgeschichte, Verlaufskontrolle, and Verlaufsdiagramm.

The noun derives from the verb laufen (to run) with the prefix ver-, historically conveying a notion of development or progression along a path. In English, Verlaufs is typically rendered as “course” or “progression” in possessive or genitive contexts. See also Verlauf for the base noun and its broader usage in describing temporal developments.