konungens
Konungens is the genitive form associated with the Swedish noun kung, meaning “the king’s” or “of the king.” In modern Swedish the standard possessive is kungens, formed by adding the suffix -ens to the noun stem kung. Konungens is an older or historical variant and is primarily found in older texts, historical context, or certain proper names. Both kungens and konungens express possession and are placed before the noun they modify, as in kungens palats (the king’s palace) or kungens råd (the king’s council). The possessive suffix -s is written directly after the noun, without an apostrophe, which differs from the English convention.
In contemporary usage, kungens is overwhelmingly more common, while konungens survives mainly in historical orthography or
Related considerations include plural possessives, where kungarnas denotes “the kings’,” and a general pattern in Scandinavian