flodbankernas

Flodbankernas is a Swedish inflected form that is sometimes encountered as the genitive plural of the definite noun flodbankarna, meaning the riverbanks. In modern standard Swedish, the usual genitive plural form is flodbankarnas, used to express possession or association with the riverbanks. The spelling flodbankernas is generally regarded as nonstandard in formal contexts, and it may appear in dialectal writing, older texts, or as a typographical error.

The standard morphological sequence is as follows: flodbank (riverbank) → flodbankar (indefinite plural) → flodbankarna (definite plural) → flodbankarnas (genitive plural). This pattern explains why flodbankernas is seen less often and is often treated as a variant rather than the normative form.

Usage of the standard form flodbankarnas is to denote something belonging to or associated with multiple riverbanks, for example flodbankarnas vegetation (the riverbanks’ vegetation) or flodbankarnas erosion (the riverbanks’ erosion). In ordinary prose, speakers or writers who want to be precise would typically prefer flodbankarnas. If flodbankernas appears, it is usually best understood as a nonstandard variant, a dialectal spelling, or a stylistic choice in specific texts. In some cases, a nonstandard form might be used as a proper noun in fictional or stylistic contexts, where capitalization would indicate a name rather than a grammatical inflection.

See also: flodbank, Swedish grammar, genitive case.