avhandlingens

Avhandlingens is a Swedish possessive form derived from avhandling, a term used for a scholarly thesis or dissertation. In Swedish academic language, avhandling typically refers to a doctoral dissertation, though the word can also be used in broader contexts to denote a substantial scholarly work. For shorter or earlier-stage work, terms like uppsats or kandidatuppsats are more common, whereas doktoravhandling or doktorsavhandling is often used for doctoral-level works.

Grammatically, avhandlingens is formed by taking the definite form avhandlingen (the thesis) and adding the possessive suffix -s to yield the meaning “the thesis’s” or “of the thesis.” It is a standard way to indicate possession or association in formal writing. Examples include avhandlingens syfte (the thesis’s purpose), avhandlingens metod (the thesis’s method), and avhandlingens resultat (the thesis’s results).

In use, avhandlingens appears frequently in scholarly prose, abstracts, bibliographies, and discussions about dissertations. It functions to attribute properties or components to a specific work without naming it directly. The term is part of the broader vocabulary surrounding academic publishing in Swedish and aligns with parallel constructions in other Scandinavian languages.

Related terms include doktoravhandling (doctoral dissertation) and avhandlingsarbete (the work of a dissertation). While avhandlingens is common in evaluative or descriptive discourse about a particular thesis, many contexts also employ the definite form avhandlingen or other phrasing to refer to the work as a whole.