potatisens

Potatisens is the genitive form of the Swedish noun potatis, meaning “the potato’s.” It is used to indicate possession or association and often appears before a noun that describes a property or characteristic of the potato.

In Swedish, the possessive is formed by adding the suffix -s to the definite form of the noun. For potatis, the definite singular is potatisen, and the corresponding genitive is potatisens. The plural forms are potatisarna (the potatoes) and potatisarnas (the potatoes’). Thus potatisens can be used with singular referents like potatisens skal (the potato’s skin) or potatisens färg (the potato’s color).

Usage and context: potatisens is common in culinary, agricultural, and nutritional writing when attributing qualities or parts to potatoes. It appears in phrases such as potatisens näringsinnehåll (the potato’s nutritional content), potatisens härkomst (the potato’s origin), or potatisens historia (the history of the potato). Because it is a grammatical form rather than a standalone concept, its meaning is determined by the noun it accompanies.

Notes: potatisens should not be confused with a proper noun or a brand name. It is a standard possessive construction in Swedish and reflects the language’s tendency to express possession without an explicit apostrophe. In spoken Swedish, the form is typically clear from context, and writers may vary sentence structure to emphasize different aspects of the potato’s relationship to another noun.

See also: Swedish grammar, genitive case, potatis.