Skons

Skons is the genitive form of the Swedish noun sko, meaning the shoe. In Swedish, the possessive suffix -s is used to indicate ownership or attribution, and skons is the form that expresses “the shoe’s” or “of the shoe” in reference to a singular, definite shoe.

Usage of skons appears in phrases that describe qualities or relations tied to a specific shoe. For example, skons färg är svart translates to “the shoe’s color is black,” and skons läderkvalitet är hög means “the shoe’s leather quality is high.” In plural references, the genitive of the plural noun skor is skornas; for instance, skornas färg är svart means “the shoes’ color is black.”

Linguistically, skons is a standard example of Swedish possessive morphology, built from the base noun sko with the genitive suffix -s attached. It is used in written and spoken Swedish to attribute characteristics or possession to a particular shoe.

In broader use, skons functions as part of everyday language rather than as an independent concept. While skons itself is not a separate entity outside its grammatical role, it illustrates how Swedish marks possession without an apostrophe, in contrast to English conventions. See also Swedish genitive, possessive suffixes, and related forms such as skors for the plural possessive.