Loppuneiden

Loppuneiden is a Finnish grammatical form that arises from the past participle loppunut, meaning finished or ended. In everyday usage, loppuneet can function as a predicate or as a nominative plural adjective referring to a group of items that have completed a process. Loppuneiden, by contrast, is the genitive plural form of that participle/adjective, used to connect the described group to another noun within a sentence.

In practice, loppuneiden appears in noun phrases where the speaker wants to express possession, association, or a descriptive relationship with the finished items. For example, in the phrase loppuneiden töiden määrä, the word order and endings indicate “the amount of the finished works,” with töiden acting in the genitive to modify the noun that follows. Other common constructions include loppuneiden hakemusten lista (the list of completed applications) or loppuneiden projektien vaiheiden seuraaminen (the monitoring of finished project stages).

Loppuneiden is most frequent in formal, administrative, or descriptive prose, where participial phrases help convey a completed-state characteristic of a subject. In everyday speech, speakers may prefer simpler phrasing such as using valmiit or restructuring the sentence to avoid heavy participial forms.

See also: Finnish grammar, participles, genitive case. The term itself does not denote a separate lexical item with a standalone meaning; it is a specific grammatical form used to describe a set of completed items within a larger noun phrase.