Deltagernes

Deltagernes is a Danish possessive form used with the definite plural noun deltager, meaning the participants. Grammatically, it marks something that belongs to or concerns the participants as a group, and it typically appears in noun phrases such as participants’ rights or participants’ meeting.

In usage, deltagernes is common in Danish writing and speech when referring to collective ownership, rights, actions, or attributes of a group of participants. It appears across contexts from journalism and law to event organization and academic writing. For example, deltagernes rettigheder means the rights of the participants, and deltagernes møde refers to a meeting organized by or for the participants.

Linguistic notes: in Danish, the indefinite plural is deltagerne (the participants), and the possessive form shown here is formed as deltagernes. Other Scandinavian languages have parallel forms: Swedish uses deltagarnas for the definite plural possessive, while Norwegian typically uses deltakerne with possessive deltakernes in similar contexts. The concept is thus one of the common genitive constructions used to express belonging or association to a defined group.

Overall, deltagernes is a standard grammatical tool in Danish for indicating possession or association with a defined group of people known as participants, and it participates in a wider family of Scandinavian genitive expressions. See also deltager (participant) and deltagelse (participation) for related terms.