Avgiftens

Avgiftens is the genitive form of the Swedish noun avgift, meaning a fee, charge, or levy. The word avgift denotes a price demanded for goods, services, or rights, and it appears across public, commercial, and administrative contexts. The definite form of the noun is avgiften, used to talk about a specific fee. The genitive form, avgiftens, is used to indicate possession or association with the fee, as in phrases describing what belongs to or relates to the fee.

In grammatical terms, avgiftens is formed by taking the definite singular avgiften and adding the possessive suffix -s to yield avgiftens (the fee’s). This construction is common in Swedish and is typically placed before a following noun to express the relationship, for example: avgiftens storlek (the fee’s size), avgiftens syfte (the purpose of the fee), or avgiftens nivå (the level of the fee). For plural references, the corresponding possessive form would be avgifternas (the fees’).

Usage notes: avgift is widely used in public administration, economics, and everyday language to describe charges such as service fees, membership dues, and regulatory charges. It is distinct from related concepts like skatt (tax) and avgiftsbelopp (the amount of the fee). In formal or legal Swedish, precise wording around the fee and its purpose is common, with avgiftens often appearing in policy documents and reports when discussing the characteristics of a particular charge.

See also: avgift, avgiftssättning, avgiftsbelopp, skatt.