Arbeidernes

Arbeidernes is the genitive plural form of arbeidere, the Norwegian noun for workers. It is used to denote something belonging to or associated with a group of workers, serving as the workers’ or of the workers’ designation in Norwegian text.

The form appears in phrases such as arbeidernes rettigheter (the workers’ rights) or arbeidernes bevegelse (the workers’ movement). It is commonly found in political, historical, and labor-movement writing, where the collective of workers is being referenced as a group with shared interests or ownership over certain rights, institutions, or actions.

The word is not a proper noun or the name of a specific organization. Rather, it functions as a grammatical marker of possession by the workers as a group. In everyday language, possessive relations can also be expressed with pronouns or with the phrase rettighetene til arbeiderne, but in formal or historical Norwegian, arbeidernes is a standard way to indicate the workers’ possessive.

In related usage, the concept of collective workers’ rights and movements has been central to various labor parties, unions, and social movements in Norwegian history, though the exact organizations and party names are separate from the grammatical form itself.