Mahdollisten

Mahtollisten is the Finnish word "mahdollisten", the genitive plural form of the adjective mahdollinen ("possible"). As a grammatical form, mahdollisten indicates possession or relation for plural referents and commonly appears before or together with plural nouns and noun phrases to mean "of the possible" or "of the potential" in English.

Pronunciation is approximately [ˈmɑh.dolːis.ten]. Morphologically it is formed from the adjective stem mahdollis- with the genitive plural ending -en, and it follows Finnish agreement rules: adjectives take the same case and number as the nouns they modify.

Common uses include attributive phrases and nominalized constructions in both everyday and formal registers. Examples:

- mahdollisten ehdokkaiden määrä — the number of possible candidates

- mahdollisten vaikutusten arviointi — assessment of possible effects

- mahdollisten vaihtoehtojen kartoittaminen — mapping out possible alternatives

Because Finnish uses cases rather than prepositions, mahdollisten frequently appears in compound expressions where the genitive plural marks the scope or source of an action or assessment. It is not a standalone lexical item but a grammatical variant of mahdollinen, used wherever reference to multiple "possible" items or persons requires the genitive plural form.