fortolkningens

Fortolkningens is a grammatical form found in Danish and Norwegian Bokmål that marks possession or a close association with the noun fortolkning, meaning interpretation or exegesis. The phrase translates roughly to “the interpretation’s” or “of the interpretation” in English and is commonly used in academic and analytical writing.

The noun fortolkning is formed from the verb fortolke, meaning to interpret or re-interpret, combined with the agentive suffix -ning to produce a noun meaning interpretation or interpretation-making. The possessive/genitive form fortolkningens is then used to indicate something belonging to or relating to the interpretation, as in fortolkningens betydning (the meaning of the interpretation) or fortolkningens kontekst (the context of the interpretation).

In practice, fortolkningens appears across humanities disciplines—literary analysis, philosophy, linguistics, and law—where discussions center on how a text, statement, or action is interpreted and what that interpretation entails for meaning, implications, or outcomes. It is a standard construction in formal and scholarly prose.

Notes on language use: the form is characteristic of Danish and Norwegian. In Swedish, the corresponding possessive would typically be tolkningsens or, more commonly, tolkningsens betydelse, using the Swedish word tolknings- for interpretation. Users translating or comparing texts should be mindful of cross-language variants and the specific possessive conventions of each language.

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