Minuuttimäärää

Minuuttimäärää is a Finnish noun form that refers to the amount of time expressed in minutes. In standard usage the base noun is minuuttimäärä, meaning the quantity or duration of minutes, and minuuttimäärää is the partitive singular form used in sentences that require a partially indefinite object or complement. The concept is commonly used in planning, scheduling, and time budgeting, where the total time allocated to a task or event is described in minutes.

Etymology and form

The word is a compound of minuutti, meaning minute, and määrä, meaning amount or quantity. As with many Finnish compound nouns, it combines two roots to express a specific type of quantity: the amount of minutes. Like other -määrä nouns, minuuttimäärä is inflected to fit the grammatical case, with minuuttimäärää as the partitive singular form used in many everyday constructions, and minuuttimäärän as the genitive singular form. In plural, forms follow standard patterns for Finnish nouns.

Usage and contexts

Minuuttimäärää appears in contexts where duration is quantified in minutes, such as meetings, broadcasts, training sessions, or project planning. It is useful for time budgeting, when organizers specify the total or remaining time in minutes. It can also appear in instructions or schedules that require precise timing, for example when describing how long a segment should last or how much time is allocated per activity.

Example sentences

Kokouksen minuuttimäärä oli 60 minuuttia. Harjoitusohjelman minuuttimäärää lyhennettiin 15 minuutilla.

See also

Related terms include kesto (duration) and aikataulutus (scheduling), which deal with time management and planning in Finnish.