Kollegoja

Kollegoja is a Finnish noun form meaning “colleagues” when used in the partitive plural. The base word kollega denotes a person who works with one’s self in a professional setting and is a loanword that has become fully integrated in Finnish vocabularies. The form kollegoja signals a non-specific or partial quantity of colleagues, which is a typical function of the Finnish partitive plural.

In Finnish grammar, the partitive plural is used after verbs or expressions that do not refer to a definite, countable set, or after numerals and quantifiers that require a partitive object. Therefore, kollegoja commonly appears in sentences that discuss an undetermined portion of colleagues, or when describing the size of a group without naming each individual. It is found in everyday speech as well as written Finnish, especially in work-related contexts or discussions of teamwork and organizational structure.

Etymology and usage notes: kollega originates from Swedish kollega and has been incorporated into Finnish with regular inflection patterns. The plural forms and their exact usage can vary with dialect and surrounding grammatical context, but kollegoja consistently functions as the object form indicating “colleagues” in a non-definite sense.

See also: kollega, työtoveri, työyhteisö, työkollegat.