No. 415 in Swedish

vars

"Vars" means "whose" in English, used to indicate possession.

In a sentence

Det är hunden vars päls är vit.
It is the dog whose fur is white.
"Vars" is a relative pronoun that connects "hunden" (the dog) to its attribute "päls" (fur).
Hon har ett hus vars tak är blått.
She has a house whose roof is blue.
Here, "vars" indicates possession, linking "hus" (house) to "tak" (roof).
De besökte en park vars gräsmatta var grön.
They visited a park whose lawn was green.
In this sentence, "vars" shows the relationship between "park" (park) and "gräsmatta" (lawn).

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