Filmien

Filmien is a Finnish noun form that denotes the genitive plural of filmi, a loanword used in Finnish to mean film. While elokuva is the everyday word for a movie, filmi is commonly found in technical, archival, or historical contexts that refer to film stock, projection, or the broader concept of cinema. Filmien, which translates roughly as “of films” or “films’,” marks possession or association with multiple films. In Finnish, the genitive plural for i-ending nouns is typically formed by replacing the nominative ending with -ien, so filmi becomes filmien in the genitive plural.

The word filmi is borrowed from English, with similar forms in other languages, and has been part of Finnish vocabulary since the early 20th century. Its use is more restricted today than in earlier cinema-era discourse, but it remains common in fields such as cinema studies, restoration, and archival work.

In practice, filmien appears mainly in specialised language and written texts, such as discussions of film archives, preservation, or theory, whereas everyday discussions about movies would most likely use elokuvat. The existence of filmi and its genitive filmien illustrates how Finnish accommodates loanwords into its inflectional system, preserving the relationship between the word and its possessive forms.

Filmien exemplifies how loanwords are integrated and inflected in Finnish.