genstand

Danish

Etymology

From German Gegenstand (“that which stands”), a calque of Latin obiectum (“the which is thrown against”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɡ̊ɛnˌsd̥anˀ]

Noun

genstand c (singular definite genstanden, plural indefinite genstande)

1. subject
2. object; something to which some action is taken
   • 2012, Stefan Ting Graf, Jens Jørgen Hansen, Thomas Illum Hansen, Læremidler i didaktikken: didaktikken i læremidler, Klim, →ISBN:

     I et semiotisk og fænomenologisk perspektiv er læremidlets indhold således alt, der bliver gjort til genstand for undervisning i læremidlet, det vil sige alt det, lærere og elever skal arbejde med – og lære noget om eller af.

     In a semiotic and phenomenological perspective, the content of the teaching-means is therefore everything that is made the object of teaching in the teaching-means, i.e. everything that teachers and students must work with - and learn about or from.

   • 2016, Villy Sørensen, Den gyldne middelvej og andre debatindlæg, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:

     Det gale ligger i den almindelige tendens til at identificere det virkelige med det, der kan gøres til genstand for videnskab ...

     The mistake lies in the ordinary tendency to identify reality with that which can be made the object of science ...

   • 2010, Klinisk vejledning og pædagogisk kompetence, Munksgaard Danmark, →ISBN, page 186:

     På organisationsniveauet kan uddannelsesinstitutionens aktiviteter og virksomhed være genstand for evaluering.

     At the organizational level, the activities of the teaching institution can be subjected to evaluation.

   • 2002, Thomas Højrup, Dannelsens dialektik: etnologiske udfordringer til det glemte folk, Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, page 270:

     Er fisk i havet genstand for fri udnyttelse, kan den kapitalistiske produktionsmåde - med nogle få, store fangstenheder, der strejfer fra farvand til farvand - græsse ressourcen så langt ned, at alt fiskeri mister sit grundlag.

     If fish in the ocean are subjected to unbridled exploitation, the capitalist manner of production - with a few, large fishing units that go from area to area - may wear the resource so far down that all fishing loses its foundation.

3. a unit of alcohol defined as 12 g or 15 mL of pure ethanol; approximately equal to a glass of wine or a bottle of beer
4. article
5. item

Declension

Declension of genstand

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	genstand	genstanden	genstande	genstandene
genitive	genstands	genstandens	genstandes	genstandenes

Derived terms

• genstandsfald (the accusative case, -rare)

References

• “genstand” in Den Danske Ordbog