konkurrenternas

Konkurrenternas is the genitive plural form of the Swedish noun konkurrent (competitor). It is used to indicate possession or association with more than one competitor, and appears in business, economics, and market analysis contexts. The plural konkurrenter takes the genitive suffix -nas, resulting in konkurrenternas, which is the standard way to express “the competitors’.”

In practice, the form is placed before a noun it modifies, for example konkurrenternas pris (the competitors’ prices) or konkurrenternas marknadsandelar (the competitors’ market shares). It can also appear in phrases describing attributes related to multiple rivals, such as konkurrenternas strategier or konkurrenternas svagheter.

Grammatically, konkurrenternas contrasts with the singular possessive konkurrentens (the competitor’s) and the plural non-possessive konkurrenter (competitors). The genitive construction in Swedish does not use an apostrophe, unlike English; the suffix -nas is appended directly to the plural form.

Usage notes: konkurrenternas is common in analytical, journalistic, and academic writing when discussing actions, strategies, or characteristics attributable to more than one rival. While the term is specific to competitive contexts, it functions like other genitive forms to link possession or relation to the noun it accompanies.

Se även: konkurrent, konkurrentens, konkurrenternas (genitiv), marknadsanalys, genitiv (grammatik).