konversationens

Konversationens is the Swedish genitive form of konversation, a noun meaning a talk or dialogue between people. The term konversation is used more often in formal or literary contexts; in everyday Swedish, samtal is the common substitute. Konversationen is the definite singular form, konversationer plural, and konversationens is the possessive/genitive form used to indicate something belonging to or associated with a specific conversation, as in konversationens innehåll (the content of the conversation) or konversationens ton (the tone of the conversation).

The base noun konversation is of foreign origin, borrowed into Swedish from French conversation, which in turn derives from Latin conversatio. In Swedish, konversation carries a somewhat formal or elevated tone, and may be encountered in written prose, journalism, or historical texts. The language’s genitive formation commonly attaches -s to the definite form, so the sequence hunden becomes hundens in the possessive; similarly, konversationen yields konversationens.

Usage notes: konversationens is primarily a written form and more likely to appear in contexts discussing the content, tone, or outcomes of a particular exchange. In everyday speech, speakers are more likely to refer to a conversation directly or use phrases like konversationens innehåll or konversationens resultat only in formal writing or careful dialogue.

See also: konversation, samtal, Swedish grammar, genitive in Swedish.