stikkordets

Stikkordets is the possessive form of the Norwegian noun stikkord, which means a keyword, cue word, or indexing term. The base word stikkord is a compound of stikk (cue, hint) and ord (word), and it is used to denote a word or short phrase that represents the main topics or themes of a text, document, or dataset. The definite form stikkordet and the genitive form stikkordets are part of Norwegian noun inflection.

In practice, stikkordets appears in phrases such as stikkordets betydning (the meaning of the keyword) and stikkordets plass i teksten (the keyword’s position in the text). It is commonly used in linguistic description, educational materials, and metadata contexts to reference a specific keyword and its relation to content.

Stikkord is often compared with nøkkelord, another Norwegian term for keywords. Nøkkelord is widely used in contemporary contexts such as search engine optimization, academic writing, and keyword tagging, whereas stikkord retains a more traditional or instructional nuance in some settings. Both terms function to identify central topics, but choice of term can reflect audience or genre.

Related concepts include stikkordliste (list of keywords), indeks (index), and tagging or metadata practices used to categorize and retrieve content. The possessive form stikkordets is a standard grammatical construction used whenever one speaks of the keyword’s attributes, significance, or relation to other elements in a text.