Odotuksien

Odotuksien is a Finnish noun form that stems from odotus, meaning expectation or anticipation. It represents a genitive plural form used to express possession or relation to multiple expectations. In practice, odotuksien is encountered in texts as a form indicating “of the expectations” or “related to the expectations.”

In contemporary standard Finnish, the most common genitive plural of odotus/odotukset is odotusten. The form odotuksien is generally considered a variant that may appear in older texts, regional usage, or specific stylistic contexts. As such, odotuksien is not the preferred form in everyday writing, but it is recognized as part of the same lexical family and can appear in references to historical language use or dialectal phrasing.

Usage and interpretation are similar to other genitive plurals of Finnish nouns: odotuksien conveys the relationship to a set of expectations. It can appear in fragments or phrases such as odotuksien mukaan (according to the expectations) or odotuksien perusteella (on the basis of the expectations), though odotusten forms are more widely used in modern Finnish.

See also

- odotus

- odotukset

- odotusten

Notes

- The distinction between odotusten and odotuksien is primarily a matter of formality, dialect, or historical period. For standard modern Finnish, odotusten is generally preferred.

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