Keskeimpiä

Keskeimpiä is a Finnish adjective form meaning the most central or most important. It is used to describe elements that stand out as the key or focal ones within a set, discussion, or analysis. The word expresses a high degree of centrality or significance relative to other items.

Form and usage notes

Keskeimpiä is the partitive plural form of the superlative keskeisimmät (the most central/important). It appears when the noun it modifies is in the partitive case or when the statement refers to an indefinite portion of items. In many contexts, keskeimpiä is paired with verbs that take a partitive complement, or it can appear in comparative constructions with plural nouns.

Examples

- Keskeimpiä kysymyksiä ovat taloudellinen vakaus, koulutus ja terveydenhuolto. (The most central questions are economic stability, education, and health care.)

- Tutkimuksen keskeimpiä havaintoja ovat käytännön vaikutukset ja resurssien jakaminen. (The study’s most central observations are practical impacts and resource allocation.)

- He käsittelivät keskeimpiä syitä tapahtuneelle muutokselle. (They discussed the most central causes of the change.)

Related terms

- Keskeinen: central or essential (base adjective).

- Keskeisimmät: nominative plural form of the superlative.

- Keskeisimpiä: another form used for certain grammatical contexts (partitive plural).

Translations

In English, keskeimpiä is generally rendered as “the most central,” “the most important,” or “the key” when referring to multiple items or when the noun is in partitive.