Miespuolisia

Miespuolisia is the partitive plural form of the Finnish adjective miespuolinen, meaning male or of the male sex. It refers to male individuals within a group when the reference is partial or indefinite, and it is used when the governing noun is in the partitive case. The corresponding nominative plural is miespuoliset, and the singular is miespuolinen.

Grammatically, miespuolisia is an inflected form used to modify a noun in the partitive case, for example in phrases such as miespuolisia jäseniä (male members) or miespuolisia jälkeläisiä (male offspring). The term is commonly encountered in biological, demographic, or sociolinguistic texts, where gender distribution within a group is discussed.

Usage notes:

- Miespuolisia is typically used in more formal or technical contexts; in everyday language speakers may simply say miehet (men) when referring to male persons.

- It forms a parallel with naispuolisia, which denotes female individuals.

- The word can describe both people and organisms and is used across various disciplines to distinguish gender within a set or sample.

See also:

- Naispuolinen and naispuoliset (female counterpart forms)

- Finnish gender terminology and grammatical case usage

This term reflects Finnish practice of expressing gender through adjectives that decline to agree with the noun’s case and number, rather than by separate gender-specific nouns.