tillfälliga

Tillfälliga is the plural form of the Swedish adjective tillfällig, meaning temporary or provisional. It is used to describe nouns that are not permanent or bound to a specific long-term arrangement. The term is common in everyday language as well as in administrative, legal, and employment contexts.

It is an attributive and predicative adjective that appears before plural nouns, for example 'tillfälliga lösningar' (temporary solutions), 'tillfälliga anställningar' (temporary employments), and 'tillfälliga bostäder' (temporary housing). The adverb form is 'tillfälligt'.

Compared with synonyms such as provisorisk or temporär, tillfälliga emphasizes temporariness rooted in circumstance rather than planned or intended duration, though in practice they are often interchangeable in many contexts.

Etymology: the word is derived from the adjective tillfällig, itself formed with the suffix -ig from a root describing an occasion or instance in time. The form tillfälliga aligns with standard Swedish declension for plural adjectives.

Related terms include tillfällig, temporär, and provisorisk.