Ärrens

ärrens is a Swedish inflected form of the noun ärr, meaning scar. It functions as the possessive or genitive, indicating ownership or association with a scar. In ordinary use, ärrens färg would translate to the scar’s color, and ärrens historia to the scar’s history. The form demonstrates how Swedish builds possessives by adding the suffix -s to the noun.

Morphology and usage: The base noun ärr refers to a scar left after an injury or a mark on the skin. The possessive suffix -s attaches to the noun to express belonging, as in ärrens lättrörlighet (the scar’s mobility) or ärrens form (the scar’s shape). When the noun phrase is definite, the same possessive suffix is used, and the phrase remains natural in medical descriptions, literature, and everyday speech. The construction is common across genres, including clinical notes and descriptive prose.

Etymology: Ärr is a native Swedish word with roots in the Germanic family of languages. The possessive suffix -s is a standard feature of Swedish grammar, used to form possessives for both animate and inanimate nouns. The combination ärrens is a regular inflection and does not constitute a separate lexical item.

See also: ärr, Swedish grammar, genitive/possessive constructions, Swedish possessive suffix -s.

Notes: ärrens is not a standalone word; it is an inflected form used to express possession tied to the noun ärr. Its usage is straightforward in contexts describing physical characteristics of a scar or its symbolic or narrative associations.