maskinernas

Maskinernas is the genitive form of maskinerna, the definite plural of the Swedish noun maskin, meaning machines. The possessive suffix -s is added to the definite plural, producing maskinernas. This form marks ownership, relationship, or attribution related to multiple machines.

The construction is common in neutral, formal, and technical language. It appears in manuals, reports, and descriptive texts to indicate what belongs to or concerns the machines. Examples include maskinernas underhåll (the maintenance of the machines), maskinernas tillstånd (the condition of the machines), and maskinernas prestanda (the performance of the machines).

Grammatically, maskinernas illustrates how Swedish forms possessives by attaching -s to a noun phrase, in this case to the definite plural maskinerna. The corresponding non-possessive forms include maskinerna (the machines) and maskinens (the machine’s) for the singular. The use of -s for genitive is standard in Swedish and occurs across many nouns, though it is most frequent in written, official, or technical contexts when the relationship to multiple objects is described.