klienters

Klienter is the plural form of the noun klient in several Scandinavian languages, including Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish. It means "clients" or "customers" and is used to denote individuals or organizations that receive services from a professional, business, or institution, such as lawyers, doctors, consultants, or software applications that access a service.

Etymology traces klient back to the Latin cliens, meaning a dependent person connected to a patron. Through legal and commercial usage in Europe, the term evolved into modern equivalents for client in many languages. In Scandinavian contexts, klients and its plural klienter appear across everyday speech and formal writing, including contracts, invoices, and medical or legal documentation.

In addition to everyday service contexts, the concept underlying the word—client–provider relationships—appears in political science as clientelism, where benefits are exchanged for political support. In discussions of clientelism, related terms and cognates are used in various languages, reflecting the same underlying idea of measured reciprocity between patrons and clients.

In contemporary IT, the English term client is frequently used, and Scandinavian texts may use klient or the borrowed English form client to describe software or hardware that consumes a service from a server. The plural form in these languages remains klienter, while possessive or genitive constructions may vary by language and style.

See also: client, clientelism, patron–client relationship.