Merkitsevien

Merkitsevien is the genitive plural form of the Finnish adjective merkitsevä, which means “marking,” “indicating,” or “signaling.” In Finnish grammar, merkitsevien is used to describe a plural noun in the genitive case, forming a noun phrase that conveys the idea of something that marks or indicates.

In practice, merkitsevien appears before a noun that is in the genitive plural. It is not a standalone noun but a grammatical form of an adjective. For example, merkitsevien ohjeiden translates roughly to “the marking instructions” or “instructions for marking,” where ohjeiden is the genitive plural of ohje (instruction) and merkitsevien selects the attributive meaning of “marking.” Another example is merkitsevien symbolien as part of a longer noun phrase such as “merkitsevien symbolien kuvaus” (“description of the marking symbols”). The exact word order and case depend on how the phrase functions within the sentence.

Usage of merkitsevien is common in technical writing, standards documentation, and scenarios where precise qualification of objects by their signaling or marking properties is needed. It illustrates how Finnish adjectives agree with the noun in number and case, producing complex noun phrases with multiple genitive elements.

Capitalization follows standard Finnish rules: merkitsevien is lowercase in ordinary use and only capitalized at sentence start or in titles. As a grammatical form, it is primarily encountered in written Finnish and is not typically used as a separate lexical entry outside grammar explanations. See also Finnish grammar, adjectives, and genitive construction.