Mikrobiologisten

Mikrobiologisten is a Finnish grammatical form of the adjective microbiologinen, meaning microbiological. It is the genitive plural form of the adjective and is used when the head noun it modifies is in the genitive plural. In practice, mikrobiologisten appears in phrases such as mikrobiologisten tutkimusten (the results of microbiological studies) or mikrobiologisten prosessien kehittäminen (the development of microbiological processes). The form reflects Finnish’s extensive system of noun-adjective agreement across cases and numbers.

Etymology and usage. The root comes from microbiologia, the study of microorganisms, combined with the standard Finnish -inen adjective ending. When the noun that the adjective describes is plural and in the genitive case, the adjective adopts the ending -isten. This yields phrases that denote possession or association with microbiology, as in “the characteristics of microbiological materials” or “ehtojen mikrobiologisten tutkimusten perusteella” (based on the findings of microbiological research). The corresponding nominative plural form is mikrobiologiset, which would modify a plural noun in the nominative.

Context and field. Mikrobiologisten appears mainly in scientific, academic, and technical Finnish writing. It is used across disciplines connected to microbiology, including medicine, environmental science, agriculture, and industrial microbiology, to specify that a noun relates to microbiology or microbiological methods. It is one of several inflected forms that demonstrate how Finnish adjectives align with noun case and number rather than a fixed standalone term.

See also. Mikrobiologia, microbiology; mikrobiologinen (the base adjective).