Organisasjonens

Organisasjonens is the Norwegian possessive determiner formed from the noun organisasjon (organization). It marks ownership and is placed before the noun it modifies to indicate that something belongs to the organization. The form is the definite genitive equivalent, created by adding -ens to the stem: organisasjon → organisasjonens. In standard Norwegian, this construction is used in both Bokmål and Nynorsk.

Examples illustrate its usage: organisasjonens ledelse means the organization’s leadership, organisasjonens medlemmer means the organization’s members, and organisasjonens strategi means the organization’s strategy. The possessive is attached directly to the noun and governs the following head noun in a noun phrase. In headlines or concise prose, the same construction is often used to convey ownership succinctly.

Notes on variation and related forms: For plural ownership referring to more than one organization, the form becomes organisasjonenes (the organizations’). This form appears before the head noun, as in organisasjonenes medlemmer. Similar possessive constructions exist in other Scandinavian languages, with spelling differences such as organisationens in Danish or organisationens in Swedish, reflecting parallel grammar across the languages.

In sum, organisasjonens is a common, neutral grammatical tool in Norwegian for expressing that something belongs to a specific organization, and it integrates smoothly into standard written and formal Norwegian.