kartornas

Kartornas is a Swedish genitive form used with the definite plural kartorna, meaning “the maps.” The form expresses possession or association, and translates to “the maps’” or “of the maps” in English when used in a noun phrase. For example, kartornas innehåll means the contents of the maps, and kartornas färger means the colors of the maps.

Grammatical notes: In Swedish, possessive -s is added to the entire noun phrase to indicate ownership, so kartornas refers to something belonging to or characteristic of the maps. The base form kartorna is the definite plural of karta (map), while the indefinite plural would be kartor and its genitive is kartors. The combination kartornas thus marks possession for the set of maps rather than for an individual map.

Usage: Kartornas commonly appears in written Swedish in discussions of cartography, geography, or historical texts where the properties of multiple maps are described. It appears in phrases that specify attributes such as kartornas skala (the scale of the maps), kartornas upplägg (the layout of the maps), or kartornas historia (the history of the maps). Because it is a grammatical form rather than a standalone noun, its use depends on a following noun that denotes the possessed or associated feature.

See also: karta, kartor, kartorna, genitiv (Swedish possessive form). The term is a standard example of Swedish possessive morphology and is not a separate lexical entry beyond its role in noun phrases referring to maps.