Miehen

Miehen is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun mies, meaning man. It is used to indicate possession or a close relationship to a male person, and it functions within noun phrases rather than as a standalone word.

Morphology and usage: In Finnish, the possessor noun in a possessive construction is put in the genitive case. For miehen, the base word mies becomes miehen in the genitive singular, yielding phrases like miesen auto? No—correctly: miehen auto, meaning "the man’s car." Other examples include miehen nimi (the man’s name) and miehen työ (the man’s work). The form signals that the possessed noun belongs to or relates to a man.

Plural form: To express ownership by multiple men, the genitive plural is used: miesten. For example, miesten auto means “the men’s car.” The plural form follows a different pattern from the singular.

Notes: Miehen is not a standalone lexical item; it is a grammatical form of mies. It appears in various fixed and idiomatic phrases and can be modified by adjectives, as in ison miehen auto (the big man’s car). The concept is central to Finnish possession constructions and interacts with other noun phrases in the same way as genitive forms for other kinship or relational nouns.

See also: mies, miesten, Finnish genitive, noun phrases.