Hyviä

Hyviä is the plural partitive form of the Finnish adjective hyvä, meaning good or of high quality. In Finnish, adjectives decline to agree with the nouns they modify in number and case, and hyviä appears when the noun is plural and in the partitive case. This form is common with indefinite quantities or when referring to an unbounded amount.

Examples of usage include Hyviä uutisia (good news), Meillä on hyviä ystäviä (we have good friends), and Hyviä ruokia (good foods). Note that with a singular noun, the corresponding form is hyvää (for example, hyvää omenaa means one good apple).

Hyviä is often contrasted with hyvien, which is the genitive plural form of hyvä. Hyvien is used to mark possession or relation to a plural noun in the genitive case, as in hyvien ystävien (of good friends). The nominative plural form of hyvää is hyvät (good ones).

In summary, hyviä functions as the plural partitive form of hyvä, used with plural nouns in the partitive case or in expressions describing unbounded quantities, and it should be distinguished from hyvien (genitive plural) and hyvät (nominative plural).