flygningens

Flygningen is a Swedish noun that denotes the act of flying, a flight, or a single journey by air. In standard usage, flygningen functions as a common and nominal term that can appear in everyday, technical, and literary contexts. The definite form is flygningen, the plural is flygningar, and the genitive or possessive form is flygningens.

Etymology and morphology

The word is built from the verb flyga, meaning to fly, with the noun-forming suffix -ning, which produces terms describing actions or processes. The definite singular is formed with the suffix -en to yield flygningen. The possessive is created by adding -s to the definite form, yielding flygningens, used to express possession or association with a particular flight.

Usage

Flygningen is commonly used in aviation, weather reports, and ornithology, as well as in general prose. The genitive flygningens is used to attribute characteristics, resources, or qualities to a specific flight, for example: flygningens längd (the length of the flight), flygningens rutt (the flight’s route), or flygningens kostnader (the flight’s costs). As a grammatical form, flygningens does not denote a separate concept but functions to connect a property to the noun flygningen.

See also

Swedish grammar: nominalization with -ning; Swedish possessive formation; flyga (to fly); flygning (flight).