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förskjuts

Förskjuts is the present passive form of the Swedish verb förskjuta. The base meaning is to move something forward or to postpone it to a later time. The term is used both for shifting an object’s position and for delaying plans, deadlines, or events. In formal or administrative language, förskjuts often signals that a schedule or arrangement has been changed, while in everyday speech speakers frequently use skjuta upp or flytta fram.

Common usages

- Time: the meeting förskjuts to next week, meaning it has been postponed.

- Planning and logistics: a deadline or project phase kan förskjuts to accommodate new conditions. In active

Relation to related terms

- The active form is förskjuta, and the noun form is förskjutning, which more often denotes a displacement

- In everyday language, skjuta upp is a common synonym for postponing, while flytta fram is another

- In geoscience and physics, the related term förskjutning (displacement or offset) is typically used rather than

Etymology and usage notes

- Förskjuta combines för- (a prefix with various intensifying or directional senses) and skjuta (to push). The

voice
one
would
say
förskjuter
mötet
eller
förskjuter
tidsplanen.
or
offset
in
a
technical
sense.
colloquial
alternative.
the
passive
förskjuts.
concept
is
to
push
something
forward,
whether
in
time
or
space.
Förskjuts
is
most
widely
encountered
in
written
Swedish
and
formal
discourse,
while
its
active
and
colloquial
variants
appear
in
everyday
speech.