forventningene

Forventningene is the definite plural form of the Norwegian noun forventning, meaning beliefs or anticipations about future events or outcomes. The term refers to what individuals, groups, or institutions expect to happen, including hoped-for results or required standards. It stems from the verb forvente, to expect, and the definite plural suffix -ene signals a specific set of expectations.

In everyday Norwegian, forventningene are often discussed as social pressures, goals, or standards. They can describe parents’ expectations for their children, societal expectations regarding gender roles, or personal expectations about one’s own performance. In psychology and sociology, the concept covers how anticipatory beliefs influence motivation, decision-making, and behavior, and how high or misaligned expectations can affect well-being and relations.

In economics or statistics, the precise technical term for an average outcome is forventningsverdi or forventning rather than forventningene. Nevertheless, the plural form appears in contexts such as polls, markets, or policy to refer to the population’s or market’s expectations, for example “forventningene i befolkningen” or “markedets forventninger.”

See also forventning, forventningsverdi, rolleforventninger, kulturelle forventninger. The expression is widely used across contexts and remains a flexible linguistic tool for describing anticipatory beliefs, norms, and pressures shaping human behavior.