25vuotias

25vuotias is a Finnish term used to describe a person who is twenty-five years old. The standard written form is 25-vuotias, a hyphenated compound of the numeral 25 and the word vuotias, which indicates age. As an adjective, it agrees with the noun it modifies in number and case.

In practice, 25-vuotias is used both predicatively and attributively. For example: Hän on 25-vuotias (He/She is twenty-five years old). It can also be used as a noun phrase, such as in general references to a person of that age. Finnish inflection for this adjective follows regular number and case patterns: plural nominative is 25-vuotiaat (the twenty-five-year-olds); genitive singular is 25-vuotiaan; plural genitive is 25-vuotiaiden; partitive forms include 25-vuotiasta and related variants depending on sentence structure.

The term is common in demographic descriptions, sociological discussions, and everyday speech when age is relevant. It designates age rather than personal characteristics, and it is frequently combined with other descriptors, for example 25-vuotias opiskelija (a twenty-five-year-old student) or 25-vuotias mies (a twenty-five-year-old man). There is no separate noun form beyond these adjective-noun constructions; the phrase functions as a descriptor of age rather than as a standalone identity.

Related concepts include other Finnish age terms formed with -vuotias, such as 20-vuotias or 30-vuotias, which use the same inflection patterns. The usage reflects Finnish grammar’s handling of numerals as modifiers of age adjectives.