MMkilpailujen

MMkilpailujen is a Finnish term used to refer to competitions held at the World Championships. The abbreviation MM stands for maailmanmestaruuskilpailut, and kilpailut means competitions. The phrase is used across sports to denote events that determine world champions, often in plural form to cover multiple disciplines within a single championship season or year.

Orthography and variants: The standard written form is MM-kilpailujen, with a hyphen separating MM from kilpailujen. The form MMkilpailujen appears in some texts, headlines, or typographic contexts where hyphenation is avoided. In any case, MM-kilpailujen is the genitive plural, indicating “of the World Championship competitions.” The base forms are MM-kilpailu (a World Championship competition) and MM-kilpailut (World Championship competitions).

Usage in Finnish media and discourse: In sports journalism, MM-kilpailujen is used to refer to the World Championship events across various disciplines, such as talviurheilun MM-kilpailut (winter sports world championships) or yleisurheilun MM-kilpailut (athletics world championships). In everyday language, however, many sports sectors prefer the shorter term MM-kisat or simply world championships in context, especially for football where jalkapallon MM-kisat is common.

See also: The full form maailmanmestaruuskilpailut provides the etymological basis of MM-kilpailujen. The term is part of a broader set of phrases describing international or world-level championships used in Finnish sports literature and reporting.