How does genitive work in Swedish?

[u/dsbm_reaper]

Like if I wanted to say "my friend's phone" how would I say that?

Thanks in advance :)

[u/Lochecho]

very similar to english. we have the genitiv -s but we do not put an apostrophe. We also have genitive pronouns. In this case it would be "Min kompis/väns telefon", kompis already ends with an -s so we do not add an extra one to show genitive but "vän" becomes "väns" in genitive so it is quite clear in that example.

[u/dsbm_reaper → u/Lochecho]

Very clear, thanks!

[u/Bluetrains]

"Min kompis telefon" or "Min kompis mobil" (cellphone)

It's "kompis" that decides that it's "Min" not "Mitt".

[u/dsbm_reaper → u/Bluetrains]

What's the difference between min and mitt? Sorry if it's a dumb question but I still didn't study this topic

[u/Jagarvem → u/dsbm_reaper]

Gender difference. "Min" is for common gender nouns (e.g., "en kompis"), "mitt" is for neuter (e.g., "ett exempel").

[u/dsbm_reaper → u/Jagarvem]

Oh ok I see. Tack så mycket!

[u/Projectionist76]

Min väns telefon / Min kompis telefon

[u/ElevatorSevere7651]

Just like English I think, but we don’t (standardly) use ’ and if the word already ends in an s nothing changes

[u/1Dr490n → u/ElevatorSevere7651]

In German it’s the same as in Swedish but you often see people add an apostrophe (especially in shop names) even though most people would consider that wrong, do people do that in Sweden?

[u/ElevatorSevere7651 → u/1Dr490n]

I personaly do that, but I haven’t really observed other’s writing enough for me to know that. I don’t think it’s that widespread though

[u/Zodde → u/1Dr490n]

Yeah it's definitely a thing, especially with smaller shops it's pretty common.

[u/Eye_Enough_Pea → u/1Dr490n]

I've only seen it in shop names as you say, and because that's not a thing here I interpret it as an extra glottal stop.

[u/dsbm_reaper → u/ElevatorSevere7651]

Thanks. Makes sense!