ämnenas

Ämnenas is a Swedish genitive plural form derived from the noun ämne, which has several related meanings, including subject, topic, matter, and substance. The form is used to indicate possession or association with multiple subjects or elements, as in phrases describing characteristics or relations of those subjects.

In practice, ämnenas appears before a noun to signal that the following noun belongs to or is about the subjects. For example, ämnenas betydelse means the significance of the subjects, or the matters’ importance. Another common example is ämnenas sammansättning, referring to the composition of the elements or topics under discussion. The construction is typical in academic, scientific, and formal writing, where grouping or attributing properties to a set of subjects is common.

Grammatical notes: the plural form of ämne is ämnen, with the definite plural being ämnena. The genitive plural is formed by adding the possessive suffix -s, yielding ämnenas, and it can attach regardless of whether the plural noun is used in its indefinite or definite plural form. This mirrors the general Swedish pattern for possessive constructions with plural nouns.

See also: Swedish grammar, genitive case, possessive forms, ämne.