vardagslivets

Vardagslivets is the genitive form of vardagslivet in Swedish, meaning “of everyday life” or “the everyday life’s.” It is used to indicate phenomena, conditions, or aspects that pertain to ordinary daily existence rather than to public, political, or extraordinary events. The term is common in both everyday language and more formal contexts such as sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies.

In discourse, vardagslivets is often employed to discuss routines, practices, and experiences that constitute daily life for individuals, families, or communities. Topics associated with vardagslivets include household work, time use, family roles, leisure activities, consumption patterns, technology use, and the negotiation of work–home balance. The possessive form helps specify the domain or sphere under consideration, as in phrases like vardagslivets regler (the rules of everyday life) or vardagslivets villkor (the conditions of daily life).

Etymologically, vardagslivets combines vardag (ordinary day) with liv (life) and the possessive suffix -ets, producing a noun phrase that centers on the lived experience of ordinary days. In scholarly writing, the term can frame analyses that contrast daily life with institutional or public life, highlighting how routines shape identity, culture, and social organization.

Overall, vardagslivets functions as a concise way to reference the lived, routine dimensions of life and how these dimensions influence individual and collective experiences. Related terms include vardagsliv, vardagslivet, and broader concepts such as samhällsliv and kulturliv.