doftens

Doftens is a Swedish grammatical form representing the possessive of the noun doft, which means scent or fragrance. It is used to indicate ownership or a close association with a smell, and is typically rendered in English as the scent’s or of the scent. The base noun doft refers to a smell or aroma, and when it is made definite as doften (the scent), adding the possessive suffix -s yields doftens (the scent’s).

In usage, doftens appears in descriptive or analytic writing about fragrances, perfumes, or odor-related phenomena. It can introduce a phrase that attributes a quality or origin to a scent, for example doftens ursprung (the scent’s origin) or doftens intensitet (the scent’s intensity). The form is part of standard Swedish grammar in which the possessive is created by attaching -s to the definite form of the noun.

Examples of the construct are common in literary descriptions, culinary writing that discusses aroma, and linguistic discussions of smell terminology. While the concept is simple, its precise placement within a sentence follows typical Swedish possessive construction rules, and it often functions to lend specificity to a discussion of a particular fragrance.

Overall, doftens serves as a concise way to express that a specific scent has a characteristic, source, or effect that is being attributed or examined. It reflects how Swedish handles possession for nouns denoting sensory experience.