dagligt

Dagligt is a Danish word meaning “daily” or “on a daily basis.” It is used as an adverb to indicate frequency, typically modifying verbs. For example, “Vi mødes dagligt” means “We meet daily,” and “Nyhederne opdateres dagligt” means “The news is updated daily.” In everyday Danish, dagligt emphasizes a routine or recurrence that happens every day.

The root of dagligt is the noun dag, meaning day, combined with the suffix -lig, which forms adjectives and related adverbial meanings. The adjective form is daglig, which means “daily,” while dagligt is the adverbial form used to describe how an action is performed. The word is closely related to cognates in other Scandinavian languages, such as Norwegian and Swedish, where similar forms exist to convey the same meaning of daily frequency.

Usage notes include the fact that dagligt typically modifies a verb, whereas the corresponding adjective daglig can modify nouns (as in daglige rutiner, meaning daily routines). In formal or written Danish, dagligt appears in contexts such as schedules, reports, and news updates, reinforcing a sense of regular, everyday occurrence.

Related terms include daglig (the adjective), dagligt’s counterpart for noun phrases describing occurrences (e.g., daglige nyheder for “daily news”), and broader concepts like hverdags-, which conveys everyday or routine in a broader sense.