kommunens

Kommunens is the possessive form of the Swedish noun kommun (municipality). It is used to indicate something that belongs to or pertains to a particular municipality and is placed before the noun it modifies, as in kommunens budget (the municipality’s budget) or kommunens invånare (the municipality’s residents). The base noun kommun has the definite form kommunen, and adding -s yields kommunens.

In Swedish grammar, possessive forms are created by adding -s to the noun. When the noun is expressed in its definite form, the resulting possessive is kommunens. For plural references, the possessive would be kommunernas (the municipalities’). Thus kommunens signals a single, specific municipality.

Usage and context: In Sweden, municipalities (kommuner) are local government units with responsibility for many services, such as schooling, planning, and social care. Kommunens is commonly found in official texts, budgets, reports, and local news to attribute actions, resources, or responsibilities to a specific municipality, e.g., kommunens budget, kommunens planer, or kommunens invånare.

Notes: kommunens should not be confused with the plural form kommunernas, which refers to possessions or attributes of multiple municipalities. The term appears primarily in Swedish-language administrative and civic discourse and reflects the standard pattern of possessive constructions in the language.

See also: kommun, kommuner, kommunallagen, local government in Sweden.