skandinavischen

Skandinavischen is the inflected form of the German adjective skandinavisch and means “Scandinavian” or “relating to Scandinavia.” It is used to describe things associated with the region of Scandinavia, which in common usage comprises Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and in broader contexts may include Iceland, Finland and other parts of the Nordic area.

As a German adjective, skandinavisch declines according to gender, case and number. The form skandinavischen occurs in several common contexts, for example in plural adjectives without a following article: die skandinavischen Länder (nominative plural) or aus skandinavischen Ländern (dative plural). It also appears in singular phrases such as mit skandinavischen Einflüssen and in predicative or attributive positions with appropriate endings, e.g., das skandinavische Design or die skandinavische Kultur in different cases.

Geographically and culturally, the term is often used in discussions of design, architecture, literature and cuisine to denote stylistic or regional characteristics associated with Scandinavia. In linguistics, it relates to the North Germanic language group, whose core languages are Danish, Swedish and Norwegian; Icelandic and Faroese are sometimes discussed in broader Nordic contexts.

In German usage, the exact ending of the adjective varies with the noun’s gender, number and case, and with the presence or absence of articles. Skandinavischen thus appears primarily in plural or certain dative/genitive formations.