Eikestävien

Eikestävien is a Finnish grammatical form that functions as the genitive plural of the negated adjective ei-kestävä, meaning not sustainable. It is not a separate lexical entry but a morphological form used to refer to multiple not-sustainable items within a noun phrase. In standard Finnish, negation of the root kestävä (sustainable) is formed with ei-, producing ei-kestävä (not sustainable). The plural nominative is ei-kestävät, and the genitive plural is ei-kestävien. In running text the form is commonly written with the hyphen (ei-kestävien); the hyphen can be omitted in some styles, yielding eikestävien.

Usage and examples:

The form eikestävien appears in contexts where a noun phrase expresses possession or relation to not-sustainable items, for example: Eikestävien tuotteiden valikoima on suppea. (The range of not-sustainable products is narrow.) Tutkimus keskittyy eikestävien rakennusten energiankulutukseen. (The study focuses on the energy consumption of not-sustainable buildings.) These examples show how eikestävien functions within a larger genitive phrase to specify that the described entities are not sustainable.

Notes:

Eikestävien is primarily a grammatical inflection rather than a widely recognized standalone concept. In practice, writers often prefer the hyphenated form ei-kestävien for clarity, especially in formal or published text. The term is most relevant in discussions about sustainability and environmental impact in Finnish.

See also: kestävyys, kestävä kehitys, ympäristövaikutukset.