Digitaalisten

Digitaalisten is the genitive plural form of the Finnish adjective digitaalinen, meaning digital. It is used to describe nouns in a genitive context or within noun phrases where the relationship is expressed through the genitive case. For example, digitaalisten laitteiden hinta means the price of digital devices, and digitaalisten palveluiden kehitys refers to the development of digital services. The corresponding forms for other cases and numbers follow the standard Finnish adjective declension, with digitaalisen (genitive singular) and digitaaliset (nominative plural) as related forms. The genitive plural ending -isten identifies a plural, possessive, or relational sense in the phrase.

Etymology and development: Digitaalinen derives from the international term digital, itself borrowed into Finnish via language contact with Scandinavian and English technical vocabularies. The early adoption of digital-era terminology in Finnish led to a full set of inflected forms, including digitaalisten, to describe increasingly digital technologies, processes, and infrastructures.

Usage and context: Digitaalisten appears primarily in formal or technical Finnish, especially in discussions of information society, information technology, and digital transformation. It frequently modifies nouns denoting devices, services, data, or resources in a genitive construction, signaling that the reference concerns digital variants or the realm of digital technologies. In everyday language, speakers may choose the simpler form digitaaliset for uninflected or nominative contexts, while digitaalisten is used when the noun is in genitive or in more complex noun phrases.

See also: digitaalinen, digitaaliset, Finnish adjective declension, Finnish technical vocabulary.