opprettholds

Opprettholds is a Norwegian verb form associated with the verb opprettholde, which means to uphold, maintain, or preserve. In standard Norwegian, present-tense forms are opprettholder (active) and opprettholdes (passive). The form opprettholds is not part of standard inflection and, when encountered, is usually considered dialectal, nonstandard, or a misspelling. The concept is widely used in law, administration, governance, and ethics to describe the act of keeping rules, standards, or conditions in force.

In usage, opprettholder is used when a subject actively maintains something, for example, "Organisasjonen opprettholder sine standarder." Opprettholdes is used when the action is passive, for example, "Reglene opprettholdes av myndighetene." The past tense forms include opprettholdt, and the perfect aspect is har opprettholdt. The related noun opprettholdelse denotes the act or state of upholding.

Etymology and related forms: the word is built from the verb opprettholde with standard Norwegian tense and aspect suffixes. The noun opprettholdelse refers to the ongoing act or policy of upholding. In scholarly and formal writing, opprettholde and opprettholdelse are the preferred terms, while dialectal or informal varieties may display nonstandard inflections such as opprettholds.

See also: opprettholdelse, opprettholde. In practice, standard Norwegian distinguishes opprettholder, opprettholdes, opprettholdt, and har opprettholdt, with opprettholdes as the common passive form and opprettholder as the common active form.