Vägarnas

Vägarnas is the genitive plural form of the Swedish noun väg, meaning roads. It translates to "the roads’" in English and is used to indicate something belonging to or associated with multiple roads. The form occurs when one talks about a property, condition, or attribute of the road network as a whole or of several roads collectively.

In Swedish, the plural definite form of väg is vägarna (the roads). To express possession by multiple roads, the possessive suffix -s is added to that definite plural form, yielding vägarnas. There is a single-road possessive form as well: vägens (the road’s). The use of -s does not require an apostrophe in Swedish; it is a bound morpheme that attaches directly to the word.

Common contexts for vägarnas appear in public planning, transportation policy, and traffic safety discussions. For example, vägarnas underhåll refers to the maintenance of the road network, while vägarnas kapacitet concerns the capacity of roads to handle traffic. The term can be paired with adjectives and nouns to describe characteristics, conditions, or responsibilities shared by the roads.

Grammatically, vägarnas demonstrates how Swedish forms possessives for plural nouns: the sequence starts from the plural definite form and adds the possessive suffix. It is used across formal and informal Swedish to clarify that discussion concerns more than one road or the road system as a whole.

See also: Swedish grammar, possessive forms, plural nouns.