förlop

Förlop is not a standard term in modern Swedish. The widely used noun is förlopp, which denotes the course, progression, or development of a process over time. In medical language, förlopp is commonly used to describe how a disease evolves (sjukdomsförlopp), but the word can also refer to the sequence of events in any ongoing process or phenomenon.

The form förlop may appear in older texts or as a typographical error. It is generally not recognized as a separate lexical item in contemporary dictionaries and should typically be corrected to förlopp in formal writing. When encountered, it is advisable to treat förlop as nonstandard or obsolete rather than a distinct term with its own meaning.

In usage, several related terms can convey similar ideas depending on context. Synonyms include process, progression, och utveckling, while tidsförlopp specifically emphasizes the temporal progression over time. The standard and most precise form for describing a series of events in a process is förlopp.

See also: förlopp, process, progression, tidsförlopp, sjukdomsförlopp.