forårs

Forårs is a term encountered in Danish and Norwegian language contexts that relates to the season of spring. In standard Danish the season is called forår, while Norwegian uses vår; in Swedish the equivalent term is vår. The form forårs is not typically used as a standalone noun in everyday speech but appears in older texts and in certain compounds or inflected forms that convey spring-related meaning. Its use is mainly as a prefix or attributive element describing spring phenomena rather than as a separate lexical item.

Etymologically, forårs is connected to the same Germanic roots that name the season of growth across North Germanic languages. The precise historical development of the form varies by language and dialect, but it generally reflects grammatical patterns that arise in compounds and possessive or descriptive phrases related to spring.

In modern usage, speakers generally prefer the bare noun forår in Danish or vår in Norwegian to name the season. Forårs tends to occur in poetic, regional, or historical contexts, where it serves to emphasize attributes associated with spring, such as warming weather, budding vegetation, and longer days. The term thus functions more as a linguistic or stylistic marker than as a common everyday label for the season.

See also: Forår (Danish), vår (Norwegian), vår (Swedish), spring (season).