Sponsorns bidrag ökade överskottet.

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Breakdown of Sponsorns bidrag ökade överskottet.

• bidraget: the contribution
• överskottet: the surplus
• sponsorn: the sponsor

Questions & Answers about Sponsorns bidrag ökade överskottet.

Why is there no apostrophe in sponsorns?

Because Swedish normally forms the genitive with a plain -s, not with an apostrophe like English.

So:

• the sponsor = sponsorn
• the sponsor’s = sponsorns

This is standard Swedish spelling.

Why does sponsorns have both -n and -s?

Because two things are happening at once:

1. sponsor is the base noun.
2. -n makes it definite: sponsorn = the sponsor
3. -s adds the genitive: sponsorns = the sponsor’s

So sponsorns is literally the sponsor + ’s, but written the Swedish way.

Why is it sponsorns bidrag, not sponsorns bidraget?