Ohjelmallisten

Ohjelmallisten is a Finnish grammatical form used as the genitive plural of the adjective ohjelmallinen, which means software-based or programmatic. In contemporary Finnish, ohjelmallinen describes things that are implemented in software rather than hardware, or that are defined and controlled by software. The form ohjelmallisten appears whenever the modified noun is in the genitive plural, such as in phrases referring to multiple software-based systems or components.

Etymology and morphology: The word is built from the stem ohjelma (program) with the attributive suffix -llinen, producing ohjelmallinen meaning “software-based.” Its genitive plural form is ohjelmallisten, used to agree with a noun in the genitive case. For contrast, the partitive plural form is ohjelmallisia, which is used in different syntactic contexts, such as when the object is not definite or is indefinite in number.

Usage: ohjelmallisten is common in technical and IT contexts. Examples include phrases like ohjelmallisten järjestelmien hallinta (the management of software-based systems) or ohjelmallisten ratkaisujen käyttöönotto (the adoption of software-based solutions). The term often appears in discussions of digital transformation, software-defined architectures, and cloud-native or virtualized environments, where functions and services are primarily realized in software.

See also: ohjelmallinen, ohjelmisto, ohjelmointi, ohjelmistopohjaiset ratkaisut, software-defined and software-based terminology in Finnish.

Overall, ohjelmallisten is a grammatical inflection used to describe multiple software-based entities in possessive or relational expressions, reflecting the growing prominence of software-driven design in Finnish technical language.