forutse

Forutse is a Norwegian verb meaning to foresee, anticipate, or predict future events or outcomes. It is commonly used in contexts such as risk assessment, planning, policy analysis, and strategic forecasting, as well as in everyday language when discussing potential consequences of actions.

In practice, to forutse something involves considering likely developments and their implications. It often relies on data, trends, and hypothetical scenarios to estimate what might happen. Examples include politicians, business analysts, and researchers who forutse risks or future states of a system. For instance, analysts can forutse some long‑term consequences of investments or policy changes, and scientists may forutse the trajectory of a pandemic using models.

The word is of Norwegian origin and has cognates in other Scandinavian languages. In Danish the equivalent is forudse, and in Swedish it is förutse. The term is part of a broader family of words around prediction and planning, sometimes linked to related concepts such as forutsigelse (prediction), forutsigbarhet (predictability), and forutsetning (precondition).

See also

Forutsigelse, forutsigbarhet, forutsetning.