utslagens

Utslagen is a term that appears in Swedish-language contexts and is used to refer to people who have been defeated, exhausted, or incapacitated in a competition, conflict, or challenging event. As a collective noun, it denotes the group of losers rather than any single individual. In everyday use, you might encounter sentences such as “De utslagen lämnade arenan,” meaning “The defeated left the arena.” The form utslagen can function as the definite plural or as a general reference to the defeated group, depending on sentence structure.

The form utslagens is a less common but recognizable possessive or genitive variant, used in phrases that attribute something to the defeated group, for example in literary or historical prose. Its occurrence is largely determined by stylistic choice and context, and it is not central to the standard vocabulary in most contemporary texts.

In addition to this meaning, the root word slag also appears in other Scandinavian contexts with different senses. For example, in medical Swedish the related noun utslag refers to a skin eruption or rash rather than defeat, and it is typically used in a distinct sense from utslagen. The connection between these forms rests on the shared root meaning of strike or impact, now extended metaphorically to outcomes in social situations.

See also: utslag (rash), utslagen (the defeated), slag.