materialets

Materialet is a neuter noun in Swedish meaning the material or a specific material. The form materialets is the possessive or genitive, used to show ownership or association with the material, as in materialets egenskaper (the material’s properties) or materialets ursprung (the origin of the material). The indefinite singular form is ett material, while the definite singular form is materialet.

Morphology and usage: Swedish forms the possessive by adding -s to the noun, in many cases without an apostrophe. For materialet, the possessive form becomes materialets. This construction is common in technical and scientific writing when describing characteristics, behavior, or provenance of substances. The phrase materialets egenskaper is a typical collocation, referring to the material’s mechanical, thermal, or chemical properties. In general text, materialet can refer to any substance or material under discussion, from raw materials to finished substances.

Etymology: The term material originates from Latin materialis through European languages, and in Swedish it has been integrated as a general term for substances used to create, build, or study something. The possessive form materialets mirrors Swedish possessive suffix usage, aligning with other neuter nouns in definite contexts.

Usage notes: As with other noun phrases, care is taken to ensure agreement with the rest of the sentence in number and definiteness. In most technical contexts, materialet and its possessive form materialets are used to attribute properties, origins, or functions to the material in question. Plural forms exist but are less central to the discussion of the possessive construction.

See also: Swedish grammar, genitive (possessive) forms, material (substance) in scientific terminology.