sårets

Sårets is a Swedish grammatical form: the genitive (possessive) of the definite noun såret, which means “the wound.” It is used to indicate something belonging to or associated with a wound, as in phrases like sårets infektion (the infection of the wound) or sårets läkning (the healing of the wound). In Swedish, the possessive for a definite noun is formed by adding -s to the definite form, so såret becomes sårets.

The term is primarily a grammatical construction rather than a standalone concept. It appears mainly in medical descriptions, descriptive writing, or historical/contextual narration where ownership or relation to a wound is relevant. It is not a common lexical entry in its own right outside of such contexts.

A related but distinct form is årets, the definite form of år (year). Årets is used to indicate belonging to the current year, as in årets pris (this year's prize) or årets bästa låt (this year's best song). It is important to distinguish årets from sårets, since they share a similar suffix but derive from different base nouns with different meanings.

Etymology traces såret to Old Norse sár (wound), with the definite suffix -et in modern Swedish, and the possessive -s added to yield sårets. See also sår (plural/singular forms), årets, and år for related morphological patterns.