forudgående

Forudgående is a Danish adjective meaning preceding or prior, used to describe something that occurs before a specified reference point. It is common in formal, administrative, and academic language to indicate temporal order or sequence relative to another event, moment, or piece of information.

The term is formed from forud meaning before and gående, the present participle of gå (to go). As a compound adjective, forudgående generally precedes the noun it modifies, but it can also appear in predicative position in certain constructions.

In usage, forudgående is found in phrases such as forudgående begivenheder (preceding events), forudgående oplysninger (preliminary information), forudgående skridt (previous steps), and forudgående behandling (prior treatment). Its presence signals that the referenced item is not the current or final step but something that has already occurred or been established.

Nuance and alternatives: while forudgående emphasizes what happened before a particular point, other Danish terms like foregående and tidligere are also used to indicate prior things. Foregående commonly refers to the immediately preceding item, whereas tidligere denotes earlier in a broader sense. Forudgående tends to appear in procedural, legal, or technical contexts where precise sequencing matters.

Relaterede udtryk inkluderer foregående, tidligere og forinden.