Hyödyllisiä

Hyödyllisiä is a Finnish adjective meaning useful or beneficial. It is the plural partitive form of hyödyllinen, used to describe multiple items or ideas that provide practical value. In everyday language, hyödyllisiä appears most often in contexts where the noun it modifies is plural and in the partitive case, such as when the amount is not definite or when it is accompanied by partitive objects.

Grammatically, hyödyllisiä is the plural partitive form; when used with a singular noun you would use hyödyllinen. The word’s meaning does not change with context: it simply indicates usefulness or practicality. Examples include phrases like hyödyllisiä neuvoja (useful advice) or hyödyllisiä työkaluja (useful tools). In predicative use, as in “Nämä ohjeet ovat hyödyllisiä,” the adjective also takes the partitive plural form.

Etymology: hyödyllinen derives from hyöty, meaning benefit or utility, with the suffix -llinen forming adjectives meaning “characterized by” or “having the quality of.” Thus hyödyllinen literally conveys “being of use” or “beneficial,” and hyödyllisiä is its plural partitive form used with qualifying nouns.

See also: hyöty (benefit), hyödyllisyys (usefulness), and hyödytön (useless).