stoffets

Stoffets is the Norwegian definite possessive form of the noun stoff, meaning material or substance. It is used to indicate that something belongs to or is a characteristic of a material. In everyday language the corresponding non-possessive form is stoffet, “the material,” while stoffets conveys ownership or association, as in “stoffets egenskaper” (the material’s properties).

Formation and usage

In Norwegian, the base noun stoff takes the definite suffix to form stoffet (the material). To express possession, the possessive suffix -s is added, producing stoffets (the material’s). This construction is common in technical and scientific writing, where authors describe attributes of a material, for example: “stoffets styrke” (the material’s strength), “stoffets holdbarhet” (the material’s durability), and “stoffets farge” (the material’s color). The phrase can also appear with a more explicit possessive construction, such as “egenskapene til stoffet” (the properties of the material).

Notes

Stoffets is one of several ways Norwegian expresses possession, and in some contexts authors may prefer “egenskapene til stoffet” or use language that avoids the possessive form. The choice often depends on readability and stylistic conventions in technical writing, product documentation, or academic texts.

See also

Norwegian grammar, possessive forms, definite forms, Norwegian terminology in materials science.