Budgetens

Budgetens is the Swedish possessive form meaning “the budget’s.” In Swedish, the possessive is typically formed by adding the suffix -s to the definite form of a noun. The base noun budget has the indefinite form en budget and the definite form budgeten (the budget); attaching -s yields budgetens (the budget’s). This construction is used without an apostrophe, similar to other Swedish possessives.

Usage and function

Budgetens is used to attribute features, actions, or relations to the budget as a thing. It appears in formal and bureaucratic language, including governmental and financial contexts. Common collocations include budgetens mål (the budget’s goals), budgetens anslag (the budget’s appropriations), and budgetens effekter (the budget’s effects). The form helps locate responsibility or ownership within official documents, reports, and debates.

Grammar notes

The possessive -s attaches to the definite form of the noun rather than to its indefinite form. This means that possessive phrases are typically formed with nouns that carry a definite article or are used in a definite sense. In longer phrases, budgetens can modify a following noun just as other adjectives do, but the meaning remains “belonging to the budget.”

See also

Swedish grammar, possessive constructions, governmental budgeting terminology.