skolornas

Skolornas is the Swedish possessive form used to refer to something belonging to or associated with multiple schools. It translates to the English "the schools’." The form is commonly found in official writing, policy documents, and everyday language when speaking about a group of schools.

Formation and usage: In Swedish, the possessive is typically formed by attaching the suffix -s to the noun. For plural definite nouns, the usual sequence is the definite plural form (for skolor, the form is skolorna) followed by -s, producing skolornas. There is no apostrophe in Swedish possessives. Skolornas can denote ownership (the schools’ budgets), responsibility (the schools’ policies), or characteristics attributed to the group of schools.

Examples: Skolornas budget har förändrats under det senaste året. (The schools’ budget has changed over the past year.) Skolornas reformer påverkar elevers vardag. (The schools’ reforms affect students’ daily lives.)

Notes: While skolornas is the common form when referring to a definite group of schools, Swedish possessive forms vary with definiteness and context. In most formal and written contexts, skolorna + s is used to express the schools’, and it remains free of any punctuation, unlike English apostrophes. Related terms include skolor (schools) and skola (a school).