Genitive -s, Pronoun Cases & Word Order

Genitiv -s på hela frasen

Genitive -s attaches to the end of the whole noun phrase

Not just to the head noun, but to the entire phrase

kungens av Sveriges bil

the car of the king of Sweden (group genitive)

-s attaches at the very end of a longer noun phrase

min bok, inte *jags bok

possessive pronouns instead of genitive for pronouns

Pronouns use dedicated possessive forms, never -s

Jag gav henne boken.

I gave her the book. (double object, no preposition)

Indirect object comes first, with no preposition needed

till vs indirekt objekt utan preposition

till vs indirect object without preposition: two strategies

Both express the same recipient relationship differently

av, för, med, till, från

prepositions replacing most case functions

Small function words do the work case endings do elsewhere

Ingen dativ alls

No dative case at all (unlike German)

A clean structural contrast with German's four-case system

Adjektiv böjs aldrig för kasus

Case agreement is nonexistent for adjectives

Adjectives change for gender/number/definiteness, never case

med mig, till dig

object pronoun after a preposition

Prepositions always take the object pronoun form

Substantiv byter aldrig form för funktion

Nouns don't change form for grammatical function

except -s

The one narrow exception is the genitive -s suffix