Maalausten

Maalausten is the genitive plural form of the Finnish noun maalaus, meaning painting or artwork. It denotes a relationship to multiple paintings, commonly translating to “of the paintings” in English. In Finnish, this form is used to indicate possession, attribution, or association in noun phrases such as museum labels, catalog entries, and scholarly writing. It is distinct from the nominative plural maalaukset, which simply means “the paintings.”

In practice, maalausten appears in contexts dealing with art collections, exhibitions, conservation, and study. Examples include maalausten koko (the size of the paintings), maalausten restaurointi (the restoration of the paintings), and maalausten arvo (the value of the paintings). In catalogs and labels, the genitive plural helps express relationships between the paintings and other nouns in a compact form.

Because Finnish uses rich inflection, maalausten is a standard form for handling plural possessive relations and is encountered across art history, curatorial notes, and academic writing. For learners, recognizing that it marks “of the paintings” helps parse headings and captions in Finnish art texts.

See also: Maalaus; Maalaukset; Finnish grammar; Art history.