vävarens

Vävarens is the Swedish possessive form of the noun vävare, meaning “the weaver’s.” Vävare refers to a person who weaves textiles, and vävaren is its definite form, “the weaver.” Vävarens marks possession by a specific weaver.

Morphology: Indefinite noun: vävare (a weaver). Definite singular: vävaren (the weaver). Possessive singular: vävarens (the weaver’s). Plural: vävare (weavers). Definite plural: vävarna (the weavers). Possessive plural: vävarnas (the weavers’).

Usage: Vävarens is used to express ownership or association, as in “Vävarens arbete var känt i byn” (the weaver’s work was known in the village). It can also appear in descriptions of crafts and textile histories. In modern Swedish, the possessive suffix -s attaches to nouns without an apostrophe. The definite form helps disambiguate in sentences where both the noun and its possession are clear from context.

Etymology and notes: Vävare is formed with the agent suffix -are from the verb väva (to weave). The possessive -s is a standard Swedish marker of ownership, applied to the definite form vävaren to yield vävarens. For multiple weavers, the corresponding forms are vävarnas and vävarna for the plural possessive and plural definite.

See also: vävare, väv, Swedish noun inflection, possessive constructs in Swedish.