Questions & Answers about Vi ska besöka företaget och dess chef.
Why do we use dess here?
Dess translates to "its". We use it because the owner of the boss is a non-human thing: företaget (the company).
Does dess change its spelling depending on the word that comes after it?
No, it doesn't! Unlike words like min or din (which change to mitt or ditt for ett-words), the third-person possessives (hans, hennes, dess, deras) never change form. They only depend on who the owner is, not what is being owned.
Why is it just chef instead of chefen? We are talking about a specific boss!
In Swedish, whenever you use a possessive word (like dess, hans, or min), the noun that follows it must drop the "the" ending and use its basic, indefinite form. So it is always dess chef, never dess chefen.
Why does the verb besöka end in "-a" here?
Besöka is in its infinitive (dictionary) form because it follows the helping verb ska (will / are going to). Whenever you use ska to talk about the future, the main verb always stays in its infinitive form.